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"We first showcased Living Stories in December through a two-month-long experiment with the New York Times and Washington Post. We got great feedback from both readers and publishers. Our next step was to open-source the Living Stories format, allowing publishers to build on it using Google’s AppEngine infrastructure. We then released a version of the code that runs independent of our infrastructure. Since then, a number of publications have shared their ideas for ways we can offer additional tools to help them create Living Stories.

The WordPress plugin is a direct result of those conversations. We hope the plug-and-play solution will make it easy for you to get a Living Story up and running in almost no time at all."

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Google’s Cohen: Make Sure User Experience Comes First, Not Search Engine Visibility – Poynter Online

Charles Yoo writing at Poynter Online:

"Google News chief Josh Cohen says a key to success in online publishing is this: Focus on "creating a more engaging experience for the users so that they spend a longer period of time per visit."

But, if Google cares so much about journalism, why not tweak PageRank and give more weight to news sites? (AP, which has been negotiating its contract with Google, reportedly wants its content ranked higher.)

"One person's branded or 'high quality' information isn't necessarily going to align with another's. So having some human come in and say, 'Well, this is good journalism and that is bad journalism' isn't consistent with our approach of trying to show unbiased results," said Cohen, product manager for Google News, in a phone interview."

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