Google to Introduce Updated News Interface for Search
- Mehedi Hassan
- Jul 12, 2019
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Google is making another big change to the Search interface on desktop this year. The company introduced Material Design icons for parts of the search UI in June, and it’s now starting to roll out a new look for News on Search.
The company announced on Twitter that it’s rolling out a refreshed design over the next couple weeks. The new design makes publisher names more prominent and introduces a much better interface that’s organized better.
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You can see the new interface below, and it does seem like a really good upgrade in terms of the design. There’s a grid of items with the top news, followed by individual cards for stories from publishers. Right now, the results are separated into different sections and it’s frankly quite cluttered, but the new interface addresses that issues by introducing independent cards that allow News to emphasize the publisher name.
It’s not clear if the new interface for News will affect traffic for news publishers, but considering that each story now takes up more space, less popular publishers could start seeing their stories appear slightly lower on the results. From a user’s perspective, though, I’d say the upgrade is really good as it takes out a lot of the clutter and organizes things much better.
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<p>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> but considering that each story now takes up more space, less popular publishers could start seeing their stories appear slightly lower on the results. "</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">you dont say ….</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and just in time for the next Presidential cycle where real news from official news sources that gave us weapons of mass destruction, children in incubators, fireproof passports, and Russiahoax, get top tier status on search results, while celebrating and pushing war agendas because war is good for business.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Alternative conservative news outlets and anti war left and right outlets will be buried even further down the list then they already are.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>But hey …. it looks better.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>