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Google News To Be Revamped, Incorporate YouTube Videos and Magazines (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

Google News is reportedly being updated with a "new design" that will "incorporate elements of the [Google Play] Newsstand app and YouTube." It will be powered by Google's AMP technology and is expected to launch at Google I/O 2018. AdAge was first to report the changes. From a report: A Google News redesign is surprising considering that the current design is less than a year old. It's unclear if the current design is just being tweaked to incorporate YouTube and Play Newsstand or if the whole thing is being scrapped and rebuilt. The report also mentions that Google News will get a new app. Google Play Newsstand is currently an odd hybrid of magazine store and RSS reader. The report says that Google Play Newsstand is going to close as part of the Google News redesign. This is the second time we've heard of a "Google Play" brand getting the axe: Google Play Music is also expected to close when it merges with YouTube. We should learn more about the changes at Google I/O, which starts next week on Tuesday, May 8.

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  1. why does everything have to be video? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can't we just read it? More efficient, more pleasant, less annoying. I guess they must get more ad revenue when they can force us to sit through video ads.

  2. Just Let Me Search a Topic and Sort By Date by Kunedog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The last redesign (sometimes?*) made it impossible to simply search a topic and view the results chronologically, so that I can easily see all new articles and ignore the old. Just let me do that, and don't censor based on politics.

    I'm not interested in videos on the news feed.

    * Sometimes it appears that part of the old Google news format is present, but usually when I search it goes to mobile hell.