Google News (news.google.com) appears to be part of the propaganda campaign now.

[pnwmom]

They've changed their format. When I just searched for Robert Mueller on Google News right now, the first 7 articles pushed Giuliani's or Gingrich's or a Fox news point of view.

For example, one of the articles they showed me was by Newt Gingrich and it was about the 5 Scandals of the Mueller probe, and how complicated it was. Why? Because Hillary was at the bottom of them all.

You and I can search and search till we find more trustworthy sources, but this is what the American public is now being exposed to.

(The article below says the AI is trainable, but I've been trying and it isn't learning!)


https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-news-changes/

1. Local and World News Powered by AI

The big headline is the arrival of AI-powered news.

The goal of the AI is two-fold. Firstly, it wants to show you more of the news stories you care about. Secondly, it aims to improve quality by only showing you articles from trustworthy sources.

This is a big step forward. Remember, there’s no editorial team at Google News; the app is not a hand-picked, curated list of content. Instead, Google has always relied on algorithms to deliver the most pertinent content to readers.

[bettyellen]

1. They were like that during the election too- they exploit the algorithms which take into account

how many clicks, retweets or how new the story is. After a certain amount of time when it’s older and should be less prominent, they change the URL slightly and have the bots retweet it again w the new URL- it’s like keeping a beach ball afloat. That’s a bit thing that a lot of people failed to realize- it’s influence on google ratings. Someone reported you’d often have to go to page 3 on google to find a WaPo or NYT version of a story. Some of the sites pushed looked very real, like legit big city newspapers- but were specifically created for these stories they were pushing.

[cyclonefence]

2. It might not be Google's doing

You can pay agencies who will manipulate where your website comes up in searches--my husband's business was approached by several of these companies. They use robohits to gin up popularity of sites, which then moves those sites to the top of the search results.

[pnwmom]

3. It IS their doing. It's a whole new format that they chose to use.

It's supposed to use a new IA app, that we can "train." Well, I have been trying to train mine all day and it keeps pointing me to garbage.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-news-changes/

[cyclonefence]

4. Whoa

Just looking at how to "train" the app gave me a headache. What the hell are they doing? And why?

Rhetorical questions--we know why. But jesus.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. If they are doing that on purpose they are contributing to a conflict, a physical conflict

between deplorable dumbshits and patriots.

[hedda_foil]

6. I just typed Mueller investigation in Google news.

Got all worthwhile articles. Are you doing oppo research on Google. I believe Google serves the kind of pieces you read, so Republicans or Dems doing oppo research would get very different results.

[pnwmom]

7. No, I'm not doing oppo research. That's not the problem. I'm just looking for articles

that aren't pushing Trump/Giuliani/Fox views.

[GeoWilliam750]

9. I get a mix, but Giuliani is disproportionately frequently represented

Bing puts up completely different results

[TheBlackAdder]

8. A spawn if a CIA initiative. It's been fucking with people since day one.

[TeamPooka]

10. the first page of a google seach delivers paid content or links for ad dollars.

so the ad buys are out there

[pnwmom]

12. This is NEW. I'm talking about news.google.com, by the way -- not google.com.

And I know what ads look like.

That's not what I'm talking about.

[FakeNoose]

17. I never click on those "paid content" articles

... even if it's something I want to read. I don't want to contribute my clicks to Google's or Yahoo's fake news craziness.

[Captain Stern]

11. I just did a search for "Mueller Investigation" on Google.

The sources for the top links that came up under 'News' were:

CNN
NPR
NPR (again)
Huffington Post
NY Times
realclearpolitics
washingtonpost
nymag
CNN(again)
washingtonpost(again)

[pnwmom]

13. I'm not talking about google. I'm talking about Google News, which is news.google.com

[Captain Stern]

19. Ok. I searched 'Mueller Investigation' there.

First sources linked to:

NPR
Fortune
AZCentral
Huffpost
NY Times
NPR (again)
Washingtonpost
CNN
CNBC
Paste Magazine
RealClearPolitics

[pnwmom]

20. Yes that's about what I see now. But only four are actually from today.

It used to be quite a few more. And you used to be able to click on a topic and see more related articles than the single example they gave you. Now I can't find a way to do that.

If you haven't used Google News regularly in the past you won't be able to understand what it's missing now. The best version for people on laptops was the original version, and they changed it a year or so ago and added lots of blank space and fewer articles. Now they've made it worse again.

[Ms. Toad]

21. It's Memorial Day -

how many new articles were published today? I wouldn't necessarily expect more than 4

[pnwmom]

22. This has been going on for days. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

23. I don't know how many days you are talking about,

but when you commented on a specific number of articles, you were referring to the number of articles today (Memorial Day). The two preceding days were weekend days, and a similar basis for a sparse population of articles would apply.

[pnwmom]

24. But there are also no links that I can see to related articles, which was a feature before.

They would have shown up in the past even if they weren't from that particular day.

[Ms. Toad]

25. Don't know about that. I haven't used it before.

I tend to stay away from places that add another layer of curation for me - I'd rather sort through the general pile of news (and related things) that an ordinary search would bring up, than have an algorithm sort for me.

[pnwmom]

26. The original Google News wasn't nearly as curated as it is now. It merely sorted out news stories

as opposed to maps, recipes, websites, and the zillion other things you can find online. And it ordered stories by date, unlike regular Google.

It was up to the reader to decide which news sources and stories they wanted to read.

A year or two ago they changed and it went downhill. Now it seems much worse.

[Ms. Toad]

27. Don't know.

I haven't used them except indirectly (after a search, I click on news if the search pulls too much clutter).

[Hugin]

14. The new Google Finance sucks, too.

It tells one NOTHING.

It's like the AOL landing page.

The old Finance had a bar chart at the bottom tracking the various sectors on a near real time basis. Now, it's difficult to even find out how individual stocks are doing.

[hexola]

15. Whoa! - take it easy people - I'm sure there's more features that will be rolled out.

Their news format was way behind the times - and wasn't really part of the whole android thing in an easy way.

If you are an Android user - I found the app already installed - although Im sure its pretty new.

They have the "Local" part back - which I think was missing for a day or two.

Give it time!

Im pyched to have the app - using G news was always a pain on the phone.

[pnwmom]

16. I'm not an android user. I'm using Google News on my laptop.

And I'm not psyched.

[hexola]

18. I guess Im alone in finding it vastly improved

I haven't really done any heavy searching or attempts to customize -

Easy to read - loads nicely.

Give it time - they will surely be making adjustments post-deployment...seems like I've already noticed a few changes.

I have to think the majority of this upgrade revolves around getting real with Android - and less about AI - which was probably already there.