Lisa Wang from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forums last night that they are deprecating a bunch of publisher specific features within Google News. Some we already reported, like the Editors’ Picks and standout meta tag but there are others as well.
Here is what Google is killing off:
Editor’s Picks
Standout and original-source tags
Ability to highlight mobile apps in the Google News Publisher Center
News crawl error tool on Search Console
But the truth is, the last two, I still see and do not seem to be deprecated yet.
The Google News errors are showing up in Search Console for me, even updated as recently as yesterday:
The Google mobile apps in the Google News Publisher Center still shows up for me as well:
Here is Lisa Wang’s full post:
Maybe these will all go away soon but who knows…
Forum discussion at Google News Help and Twitter.
