John Giannandrea Leaves Google To Join Apple

Both those features came to Google News back in 2011. Editors’ Pick came in August 2011 and the standout meta tag came in September 2011. I honestly thought the standout meta tag was a smoking gun feature that wouldn’t last but it lasted several years. I used it very infrequently but it did tend to work to send more traffic to Google News publishers.

In any event, those two features are gone – what will replace it is unclear at this point.

Forum discussion at Twitter.