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Google Is Testing a Trending Stories Feature On Its Homepage (fortune.com)
Jeff John Roberts, reporting for Fortune: Google and its rival Facebook have transformed into giant media companies in recent years, working with news and video companies as part strategy to encourage consumers to stay on their platforms. Now, it appears Google is taking another big step in this direction by showing visitors three trending news stories on its home page -- right under its iconic search bar -- as well as three "trending topics." Google's decision to display trending news topics mirrors what Facebook has been doing in recent months, and will likely provide more grist for the debate over how the companies curate news, and their growing power over the media. The change to Google's homepage began to appear this week, though it does not appear to have been rolled out to many users.
No, Google isn't testing anything. The reporter has Pocket's chrome extension installed that's injecting content into the page.
the reason I set peoples home page to google is that it not cluttered with that shit.
now it's just going to be about:blank
seriously, when i pull up google.com its because i *want* to search for *something*, it is not ever because I'm looking to be distracted from the thing I was searching for with random shit trending on twitbooktube.
Seriously?
Hired goons?
Monstar L
Parent is probably right.
From the Article:
Now, a new feature from read-it-later service Pocket causes Google’s home page to show three trending news stories on its home page—right under its iconic search bar—as well as three “trending topics.” As noted below, it’s unclear if Google is involved in the feature, or if it is solely a Pocket initiative.
I just tried Google.com (after I cleared my cache) and got the usual Google page.
Did the poster even read the article to which he linked? Have a special link? Have corroborating evidence?
The reason we all switched from Yahoo to Google circa 2000 was the clean search page.
Where is Google trying to drive us?
It's usually some stupid shit like Justin Bieber spotted with some chick eating lunch, or a rapper dissin another rapper.
To me, "Trending" is equivalent to "stupid bullshit only morons care about".
when you lick a butthoal
you lick it for life
No subdomains of slashdot.org are resolving anymore.
DEAD LINK to next story.
Ever notice how biased Google News is?
If you want to be a brainwashed slug and have information spoon-fed to you, it's probably an acceptable news solution. If someone is looking for an honest representation of what's going on in the world, look elsewhere.
can somebody please add this to u-block already? or tell me how i can add it myself.
Looks Like Some Google Shill Modded You Down In Fear LOLOLOL
The Google Search App for iOS has this - when Google Now is enabled. I've been seeing News items recently - other than my upcoming events.
Google Now used to simply tell me "it'll take 35 minutes to get to work today, and the weather will be nice, you have a Dr appt at 3pm" But over the last month I've been seeing news articles with text below them "because you've shown an interest in X"
But I have not seen this on the "PC" google.com home page via my browser !!