the loss of trending query traffic is the real killer here bc news relies on that
instantaneous authority . if google doesnt immediately associate the new. com w/ the established entity, you lose the race to competitors who stayed on their local ccld. it feels like they basically stripped away their
geographic relevance right when they needed it most. ive seen similar issues with site migrations where the 301 redirects were technically correct but the `
re-evaluation period
` for news caches took way too long. did they mention if there was a significant change to their internal linking structure or schema markup during the move? ❓