7 hours ago
- Google News is compared to the scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest crashes the boat because he's distracted by Lieutenant Dan, symbolizing Google's neglect of its news product.
- A journalist describes how Google News gradually stopped working for filtering by time, location, and language, returning results from social media sites like Instagram instead of news organizations.
- Search results now include many foreign-language posts and articles from non-U.S. sources, ignoring the specified settings for U.S. news.
- The most recent failure is that Google News ignores the date filter, showing articles from weeks, months, or years ago instead of the selected time range.