Just a quick note that last Friday we updated the search tool on PRWeb.com and moved it from the self-contained domain, Newspad.com, to a sub-folder on PRWeb.  Functionality-wise, we have simplified the results and focused solely on the news releases themselves as opposed to the blended approach we were taking previously.
We’ll be doing some things [...]

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For the last few months we’ve noticed that Google has begun surfacing news results on Page 1 of their blended Web search.  After taking a closer look, here are a few specifics we have found:
1. News stories have approximately a 24-hour shelf life in blended search – In fact, news stories surface on page 1 [...]

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This Friday we are going to be rolling out several additional updates to our analytics dashboard including the following:

Hovers for ‘impressions breakdown’ – We will be adding hover menus with help text over the various fields in the breakdown table for impressions to better explain what those different values mean.
Table with exact counts for impressions, [...]

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On January 8, we rolled out a batch of fixes to the release editing tool and analytics dashboard, including the following:
Release editing tool

Increased the lag on pop-up help menus – Although many users (particularly those newer to the release creation process) liked the pop-up help menus, the velocity with which they appeared was fast so [...]

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