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Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism (businessinsider.com)
Google today confirmed that it is removing "In the news" section from the top of desktop search, and replacing it with a carousel of "Top stories," similar to what exists on mobile. From a new report on BusinessInsider: This move had been planned for quite some time, and is being rolled out globally, according to Google. The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product. Last month, Google faced scrutiny when one of its top results for "final election count" was fake news. The top result in Google Search's "In the news" section was a Wordpress blog named "70 News," which falsely claimed Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000. (He didnâ(TM)t). Google's search results, in contrast to Google News, are not assessed for "truth."
Yes, she now leads by 2.7 million votes
The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product.
Google's main product is advertising and user info (to better target advertising), not search.
I often used the NEWS link in Google search to filter out the results I got back on a search to current item of interest. ... snip...
It sucks if Google is removing this feature, and it sucks even more if it is being done because of "Criticism".
They're not. They are removing the "news" stories you get as part of search results which are related to whatever the crawler picks up. The actual news button at the top will remain and the news search function will too as far as I can tell.
Google is NOT removing the "News" section. What they are removing (actually have removed) is "news" stories as part of the the search results. These were whatever relevant thing the crawler picked up. e.g. If you searched for "Brexit" you would invariably get some "news" stories at the top of your search results. Now you get a "Top Stories" section.
You can still click "news" in the heading to get the normal Google News results which are vetted by a person rather than Google's standard crawler algorithm.
Why would you characterize what he described as 'subverting' the process? The rules of the process were designed to allow for those scenarios. Therefore, they are following the process- not subverting it. Interestingly, the states that have introduced penalties for electors who choose to vote their conscience are the ones who are trying to subvert the process.