Google News - New Format - Hate It - How About You?

[Sally Stitts]

So I went to Google news like I do every day, and Presto!
It is totally different. I don't like it.

How about you?

It is definitely time to try Bing news and Yahoo news once again.
Or maybe, just stick with the Huffington Post, which is so much more fun. And usually about 10 minutes faster than Google news with all the scoops. I've checked several times.
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[tedster]

Change is always tough for me - I hate investing the time it takes me to adapt and I often can't see any positives for a while, if they exist at all. That's certainly the case right now with this Google News change. What happened to the news I had set up for my local community?

However, the News SERPs still seems serviceable, and I mostly use my feed reader for the topics I care about long term.

[ken_b]

I dislike the new format a lot. But where else to go?

I liked the old layout because it allowed me to get a quick peek at stories I might not otherwise see. That led to my reading a bunch of stories I wasn't actually looking for at the moment.

With the new layout I'd be a lot more likely to quickly click on "Business", etc and never see the sports, health, whatever I wasn't looking for right then.

I'm trying Bing News out for the moment. Sometimes "progress" sucks!

[willybfriendly]

The new layout sucks. Hard to get a quick overview of the same variety of news stories, and, once again G wants personal information (which I trust them less and less with, no matter how seemingly innocuous).

[Reno]

I'm not enthused either, but I do like having the local weather display for each of the 3 communities that I have in my personalization. Let me keep that and go back to the old layout, and I'll be perfectly happy.

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[tedster]

I just realized that we have another thread about the new Google News layout. Since this forum is really focused on SEO, let's take further discussion over to the GOOG Forum [webmasterworld.com]