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Posted by David Smydra, Google News Product Specialist
(Cross-posted on the Webmaster Central Blog)
Google News recently updated our infrastructure to crawl with Google’s primary user-agent, Googlebot. What does this mean? Very little to most publishers. Any news organizations that wish to opt out of Google News can continue to do so: Google News will still respect the robots.txt entry for Googlebot-News, our former user-agent, if it is more restrictive than the robots.txt entry for Googlebot.
Our Help Center provides detailed guidance on using the robots exclusion protocol for Google News, and publishers can contact the Google News Support Team if they have any questions, but we wanted to first clarify the following:
As with any website, from time to time we need to make updates to our infrastructure. At the same time, we want to continue to provide as much control as possible to news web sites. We hope we have answered any questions you might have about this update. If you have additional questions, please check out our Help Center.
Muppets, portals, explosions, and spaghetti: here are 10 of this week’s top trending videos from YouTube Trends:
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Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.
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| Irene from Space | Soldier Surprise | Emile After Dentist | You Got What I Need |
As Hurricane Irene makes landfall in the Southern United States, those in the Northeast and elsewhere have begun preparing for the storm. In the past day or so, we’ve seen a great many videos regarding the storm that have been uploaded to YouTube.
In fact, roughly 4,000 “Irene”-related videos have been uploaded in the past 24 hours. Many of these videos consist of on-the scene footage — like those we began receiving late this morning from Jacksonville and North Carolina — aftermath footage, or clips people have posted of the preparations they’re making.
We’ve seen quite a variety — from the official to the foul-mouthed and funny. Here’s a selection of a few we’ve come across today:
On a lighter note, searches for a number of songs relating to the storm are sharply on the rise, including “Goodnight Irene,” “Rock Me Like a Hurricane,” and a certain popular song from 1982 though it’s not 100% clear if these are searches specifically for parodies or just searches by people who have mistaken the songs lyrics:
In December, we detailed how the computer game Minecraft had become one of the gaming industry’s underground hits of 2010. At the time, many of the most popular Minecraft-related videos were clips of some of the incredibly elaborate work being done within its block-building world.
While those types of videos certainly still exist and remain popular, a new Minecraft trend developed in 2011 of people using the game to create music videos parodying some of the biggest pop songs of the year.
Below, we’ve listed 10 of the most-viewed examples of the trend from the past few months:
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Earlier this year, Minecraft also saw its first in-game proposal.
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