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Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net

Posted by BeauHD on from the if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it dept.

Rei shares their opinion of Google's redesign of Google News: Google unveiled a "new look" for Google News, describing it as a "clean and uncluttered look." New design features include a mostly empty "In the News" box for trending-topics, most of which you probably don't care about; a double-height page header so that they can make the border around the search box inexplicably larger and add a four-option menu bar; large empty grey expanses that take up half the browser; and a new news section that presents half as many news articles per page. If you didn't think you were having to scroll enough when using Google News, don't worry -- Google's got your back with this new update. It's safe to say that Slashdot reader Rei is not so fond of the Google News redesign. Have you had the chance to view it yourself? What do you think of the Google News facelift?

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  1. Dreadful. by dtmos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, now we know where the user experience experts that invented the ribbon went after they were fired from Microsoft.

    They were fired, weren't they?

    1. Re:Dreadful. by bobbied · · Score: 5, Funny

      Who cares about ribbon's....

      I want my paper clip back! He was my only friend...

      --
      "File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
  2. Re:Yeah... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why this version is going to be called Rosebud.

  3. Re:Epic Self-Own by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox doesn't allow most cookies and deletes the rest every time I close it (i.e. many times a day).

    Yeah, it crashes a lot for me too.