Google Investigating Cases Where Big Brand News Sites Ranking Above Small Specialized Publishers

Over the past couple of weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from the SEO and publishing worlds that since some of the more recent core updates, Google has been ranking big publisher brands well above smaller, more specialized publishers that may know the topic better.

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