SEO Wash-up Monday 6th November

SEO Wash-up Monday 6th November

Google RSS feed are now broken and disapproved for December

The RSS feed subscription on Google news has been disapproved for December, which means that if you have a news RSS feed subscription from a year ago then you will need to go through them all and update them.

From Google, a spokesman has said that they are going through some necessary improvements to their systems that power the RSS feeds and that you will see a change in pattern for the Google news RSS URL.

As a result of the updates the old RSS URLs will no longer be functional as from the first of December. In order to update your RSS feeds, you will need to go to the https://news.google.com and simply select the section you require or choose to create a custom section, In the section at the bottom you click the RSS, which will make the feed appear and once you see it, then you copy the URL to get the new URL for the RSS feed.

As Google is changing the news feeds to a completely new system, they are backing up the old feeds, but the old feeds that are backed up are irrelevant and some stories that are appearing may ne unrelated to your keywords you have in your subscription. It is still uncertain whether Google plans on fixing the issue with the old RSS feed URLs or if they will tell users to update to the new URLs.

Google has been told not to comply with Canadian court’s order in delisting search results

California’s federal court has stopped the operation of the Canadian Supreme Court ruling that has ordered Google to delist a few websites that are associated with a company called Datalink from Google’s global index. The decision was an example of a court in one country asserting authority over their global activity outside its jurisdiction.

As US federal court has agreed with Google and filed a preliminary injunction that effectively overrules the Canadian Supreme Court. The company has filed an action in the US District Court in California, which the Canadian decision has violated the US law.

It seems that Google may get a permanent injunction where they can take that injunction to the Canadian court and pursue to change the latter’s ruling to apply Google’s Canadian index alone. However, it is still not clear on what would happen if the Canadian court refused.

If the Canadian order goes through then it would eliminate Section 230 immunity for service providers that link to third-party websites, which will force mediators to remove any links that they have which are third-party websites, the Canadian order undermines the policy goals of Section 230 and threatens free speech on the global internet.

This issue exists in France in the sense of the right to be forgotten, as the French privacy regulators want to take away content that is on the Google global index. Google is now before the highest European court to attempt to limit de-indexing to Europe.

 

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