Google News' crawling bots will be visiting publisher sites more than ever, especially when news sites post new content, and will return several times in the future to check for updates.
Engineers have implemented a "recrawl feature" that will note changes made to an original post--like updated text, a typo correction or headline rewrite--and add it to the Google News index.
Once Google News bots spot an article for the first time, they will come back to check on it over and over again because so many edits happen soon after the article is posted. Engineers hope the new feature will capture articles that they were having trouble indexing during their first pass and keep the index updated with the freshest news.
"For readers, this feature is intended to reduce the number of outdated headlines and dead links you might find," wrote software engineers "And for publishers, rest assured that we'll be back to find your latest stories and updates as soon as we can."
As for publishers who might not like Google News revisiting their sites so often, senior product business manager Josh Cohen has some instructions for you.
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