Google tests removing the News tab from search results
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The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won't help publishers sleep any easier.
    • ElderberryLow@programming.devEnglish
      45·
      9 months ago

      I wondered the same. It’s not my primary way for getting news but it’s a good option to have if looking for articles on a certain topic.

          • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            21·
            9 months ago

            Because the content they show is literally the content the sites explicitly set up for the sole purpose of “if you link to my site, pretty please show this preview to make our link more attractive”. The idea that they owe a royalty for showing the content sites are explicitly asking them to show is completely indefensible.

        • moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Canada put a law in place last year requiring meta and Google to pay for users clicks into Canadian media. Facebook stopped allowing the sharing of our reputable news sources and I was temporarily impressed that Google continued on.

    • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      9 months ago

      “We want you to interact with our new chat bot and ask it about the news” probably.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    9 months ago

    One more for Google Graveyard™. It doesn’t surprise me. You’re better off not relying on their products too much as they all disappear. Would Gmail, YouTube or Maps disappear too soon?

    • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      The only reason I use Google sometimes now is for the news tab, because duck duck go doesn’t have the ability to filter for older articles in its news tab.

  • FBJimmy@lemmus.orgEnglish
    281·
    9 months ago

    I’ve found all of the tabs on Google have a tendency to go AWOL these days - like the other day I was searching for camera lenses and Google took away the ‘Products’ (formerly kmown as ‘Shopping’) tab, even though what I was searching for couldn’t have been more obviously a product. Instead, all I could get were super low quality copy-paste blogs vaguely related to the product.

      • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        It’s definitely on purpose to trick your muscle memory and the hope is that you purposely get driven somewhere else that you didn’t consider and like using it once you get mislead there

    • clearleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      They change the interface pretty much every day. The people managing the image search are especially on crack. Features are disabled and then come back and then they’re disabled and then they come back… I just go to Bing now. I’m sorry my desire to search square images was such a monkey wrench in your business model google.

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    9 months ago

    It could just be me, but the quality of Google news absolutely tanked a couple of years ago.

    Trying to manage news sources became increasingly difficult as clickbait infested results and suggestions.

    It felt like they had lost their ability to separate “new content” from “news”.

  • tedu@azorius.net
    51·
    9 months ago

    Are they testing removing the news tab or are they testing different tab orders and a bug hid the news tab?

  • LibreFish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    There’s already a number of countries trying implement news site link taxes, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just gave up and decided to cut that out.