The new Google News page is annoying
A few hours ago, Google decided to do a makeover of their news.google.com page, moving away from having two columns of news items, with each item providing an easy to read headline/link to an article, and a short list of links to alternative articles on the same subject. Now the page has one main column in the middle, a narrow left column, and a wider right column.
What a repellent thing to do! What an amazing reaction it provoked!
The right column is loaded with crap I don't care about. Google decided I wanted to know about international soccer and weather right up there with topics I do want. I don't remember noticing the left column before, I've never used it.
This unilateral makeover decision by Google, so remarkably abrupt, rude, obnoxious, irritating, undesired, unasked for, is so blindingly corporate in foul "we know what's good for you so STFU" behavior, I'm provoked to stick long, steely-hard textpins into a Google Voodoo doll.
They pulled out some formatting and replaced it with other formatting. They now let you value some news sources: I junked Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
Interestingly, only the US version of the news page has been switched over. So I changed from US to Canadian English, and the two-column format appears, with some odd differences like all the national news items are about Canada. I need to spend some time tweaking this to get it back the way it needs to be. I bet I can't keep Fox or WSJ off the page now, tho.
What a repellent thing to do! What an amazing reaction it provoked!
The right column is loaded with crap I don't care about. Google decided I wanted to know about international soccer and weather right up there with topics I do want. I don't remember noticing the left column before, I've never used it.
This unilateral makeover decision by Google, so remarkably abrupt, rude, obnoxious, irritating, undesired, unasked for, is so blindingly corporate in foul "we know what's good for you so STFU" behavior, I'm provoked to stick long, steely-hard textpins into a Google Voodoo doll.
They pulled out some formatting and replaced it with other formatting. They now let you value some news sources: I junked Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
Interestingly, only the US version of the news page has been switched over. So I changed from US to Canadian English, and the two-column format appears, with some odd differences like all the national news items are about Canada. I need to spend some time tweaking this to get it back the way it needs to be. I bet I can't keep Fox or WSJ off the page now, tho.