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Google has abandoned Google News?

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Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Post by mikelgan »

Now, when I do my traditional searches, a huge majority of some of my searches are from Instagram or other social media sites, not news publishing sites.

Many of my results are in foreign languages I cannot even identify.

Many of my results are published in foreign countries, not the U.S. as I specified.

Now, the most recent failure is that when I specify news published in, say, the past week, it just ignores that setting and gives me news published weeks, months or years in the past.

Google has abandoned Google News and let it crash into the dock.

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Post by mikelgan »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Use Ground News instead. Their team is responsive to inquiries and feature requests. Enshittification of Google products continues. https://ground.news/ (no affiliation, just a customer)

I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for very, VERY specific subjects like the Attachment Economy, synthetic relationships, and a hundreds others, and I need to know all the stories on this subjects or using these keywords that have been published in the United States in the past week.

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

mikelgan wrote: post #4
toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Use Ground News instead. Their team is responsive to inquiries and feature requests. Enshittification of Google products continues. https://ground.news/ (no affiliation, just a customer)

I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for very, VERY specific subjects like the Attachment Economy, synthetic relationships, and a hundreds others, and I need to know all the stories on this subjects or using these keywords that have been published in the United States in the past week.

Thanks for sharing those requirements. What are the most comparable competitors to Google News today that you would use for this?

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Post by jubilanti »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5
mikelgan wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for very, VERY specific subjects like the Attachment Economy, synthetic relationships, and a hundreds others, and I need to know all the stories on this subjects or using these keywords that have been published in the United States in the past week.

Thanks for sharing those requirements. What are the most comparable competitors to Google News today that you would use for this?

Lexis Nexis --- if you're willing to pay. Had access to it in school and I miss it!

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Post by oh_my_goodness »

mikelgan wrote: post #2

Now, when I do my traditional searches, a huge majority of some of my searches are from Instagram or other social media sites, not news publishing sites. Many of my results are in foreign languages I cannot even identify. Many of my results are published in foreign countries, not the U.S. as I specified. Now, the most recent failure is that when I specify news published in, say, the past week, it just ignores that se…

Kagi search works much better than Google search for me. But I don't use it for news, so I dunno.

I have nothing to do with Kagi. I've been a user for a few months.

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Post by alex1138 »

I'm convinced nobody works at these tech companies. It's like (another pop culture reference!) getting Homer Simpson's mechanical woodpecker that almost resulted in the nuclear explosion

How can we piss off the MOST amount of users? I have a bet going with Fred in Accounting

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Post by jubilanti »

mikelgan wrote: post #2

Now, when I do my traditional searches, a huge majority of some of my searches are from Instagram or other social media sites, not news publishing sites. Many of my results are in foreign languages I cannot even identify. Many of my results are published in foreign countries, not the U.S. as I specified. Now, the most recent failure is that when I specify news published in, say, the past week, it just ignores that se…

I've tried repeatedly and I cannot replicate any of your results. No matter what I search for, the date filter works. What were you searching for? Please share your full queries and have screenshots that capture the URL as well.

edit: You also say this occurs in the "huge majority" of the times you search. You give one cropped screenshot that does not even show your own query. As a journalist, please specify whether you intended for "huge majority" to be taken literally or figuratively. How many searches have you run and how many have one of these bugs?

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