On Wednesday morning (Apr. 18), ABC News’ senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper fell victim to one of the lesser-known perils of online publishing. Filing a story on a recent Romney campaign attack on President Obama (the Romney team dug up a quote from Obama’s memoir where the President recalled eating dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia), Tapper’s original headline was indexed incorrectly by Google News, pulling a particularly unsavory quote from the comments section and showcasing as it were the story's actual headline. The headline as Tapper wrote it: ‘Romney Campaign Notes that Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat*’ The headline as indexed by Google News: ‘I’ll bet Obama ate a WHITE dog’. Tapper, who was alerted via Twitter, condemned the error calling it “horrific” and noting that “Google's algorithm is a pernicious beast” in this instance. Adweek reached out to a Google, which provided the following statement: “Google News scans an article's entire page and automatically displays what it determines to be the correct headline. When our system gets it wrong, as it did in this particular instance, we work closely with the publisher to help resolve the issue and see how we can improve our systems to more accurately index content. The error was quickly resolved and we apologize for this error.” While the error was an honest mistake on Google’s behalf, the event speaks to a larger issue in the world of online publishing as search engines like Google act as... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2012-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. (NWSA) for the first time publicly detailed bribery by a journalist at its now-defunct News of the World, telling a court that a former editor agreed to pay a prison guard to get a story about a child killer. Matt Nixson, a features edit ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline Review has acquired a new title by the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Books and the French online publication ActuaLitté have launched a digital library... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since its launch last December in partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Google eBooks has yet to capture significant market share. According to the Codex Groups recent Showrooming study, while the number of people who read both print books and ebooks has grown from 25% in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline has bought world rights to cookery book The Fabulous Baker Brothers. Deputy publishing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is partnering with Bloomsbury's Public Library Online, sponsoring two of the digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Inc.'s YouTube said it acquired RightsFlow Inc., a small company that tracks and processes royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2011-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Googles advertising horsepower is about to get even greater. In a blog post Friday, Googles VP of display advertising Neal Mohan announced that the Department of Justice had approved its $400 million acquisition of the New York-based online advertising company Admeld. Google, which announced... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2011-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online-only news sites received moreand more positiveonline buzz than their print-affiliated counterparts in 2011, according to a data-mining tool developed by digital marketing agency Zeta Interactive. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four regional sales managers have left the Hodder & Stoughton and Headline Publishing Group... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 17/11/2011 - 09:30 Children's laureate Julia Donaldson has welcomed yesterday's High Court ruling against library closures in Gloucestershire and Somerset as "the best news Ive had all year". In a statement given to Somerset group Watchet... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A week after unveiling Google+ pages for brands and businesses, Google has invited a handful of social media management companies to test integration of Google+ in their tools. The six companiesHooteSuite, Buddy Media, Involver, Hearsay Social, Context Optional, and Vitruewill be able to offer... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2011-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations [ABC] released survey results Monday that reveals attitudes of the publishing industry when in it comes to working with Apple Inc. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 04/11/2011 - 11:01 Headline has acquired the next book by Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling, with the Sky Sports football pundit moving with his editor Jonathan Taylor from HarperSport. Publishing director Taylor bought world... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 02/11/2011 - 08:20 Google has launched its ebook store in Canada, with the regional arms of Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin and Simon & Schuster signing up to the digital service. The publishers join Canadian houses such as D&M... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 08:29 Headline has acquired two novels by Mark Mills, previously published by HarperCollins, and author of bestselling title The Savage Garden. Publishing director for fiction Imogen Taylor bought world rights excluding North... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the first integration between the Google+ social networking site and the Blogger blog publishing platform, users will be able to replace their Blogger... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A year and a half since the Apple iPad was introduced, a new study shows that reading news has become a big part of what people use tablets for. But publishers still have a way to go to get people to pay for content on tablets. The newest look at peoples willingness to pay for content is a... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than half of owners read news on their devices, a survey shows, though there's not much willingness to pay for content. But there may be a way.With roughly 25 million adults in America now owning an iPad or other tablet computer, a new survey shows that the early adopters are using the... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first stage of Hearst Magazines UK's commercial restructure marks a move towards creating more joined-up brands, group commercial director Matt Salmon has claimed. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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