Is it me, or does Google News now suck?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:01 am

Change can be good, but the new layout for news.google.com sucks.

Post by **Philip** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:26 am

My guess is they are trying to make it look better on small Android screens... e.g. bigger pictures less text, single column content :/ I don't particularly like it either, for what it's worth, but it seems to be the current trend.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:48 am

I like it. Its not all that different to me. Just feels a bit less cluttered.

nwrickert · Post by **nwrickert** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:13 am

It is part of the dumbing down of America (or, perhaps, of the world).

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:25 pm

Never use it. LATimes, NYTimes, BBC and Motherjones is about all I look at.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:46 am

sucks

tao_jones · Post by **tao_jones** » Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:42 am

I hate it when using a desktop browser. I normally skim the page looking for an article that gets my attention. It seems like now there is less overall content.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:20 am

Agreed.

Used to be my lunch go-to, now I cringe when I habit click.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:14 am

Easto wrote:Never use it. LATimes, NYTimes, BBC and Motherjones is about all I look at.

If you want to see a lot of ads and popups go to the LA Times. Unless you get a subscription it's relentless with the ads and popups. So much so I usually only check it about 2-3 times a week. Never daily. Besides, the reporting isn't that great anyway.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jul 13, 2017 2:26 pm

There are still the same amount of things on google news, jus thte small list of popular topics is now on the right and a little bigger. I just wish I could have the weather on the top right for the Top Stories section.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:12 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:There are still the same amount of things on google news, jus thte small list of popular topics is now on the right and a little bigger. I just wish I could have the weather on the top right for the Top Stories section.

Much less IMO, less detail per story headline, and at least 1/3 of the space is completely wasted and empty.
It sucks the proverbial ass.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:36 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:There are still the same amount of things on google news, jus thte small list of popular topics is now on the right and a little bigger. I just wish I could have the weather on the top right for the Top Stories section.

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/28/googl ... n-desktop/

Another change that you may notice if you used Google News before is that articles include titles only in the new interface.

Google News displayed the first sentence previously underneath each article. The sentence has been replaced with links to related coverage instead.

The number of news articles has been reduced as well. A quick comparison between the old and new design sees a reduction of articles by more than half. There is top news at the top of the page, and then half the articles that were there before.