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I dearly hope that they restore advanced search options and access to all search-matches. It's currently a nightmarish Playskool version of yesterday's Google N
by philipkglass 9y ago
I dearly hope that they restore advanced search options and access to all search-matches. It's currently a nightmarish Playskool version of yesterday's Google News, suitable for ages 6-12. I like to search for specific topics in time buckets, e.g. "wind power" in the past day or "spectroscopy" in the past week. Maybe even search between specific user-specified dates if I'm diving into the history of a complex topic. Now I can't specify the time range and can't see all matching results even for the search terms I turn into a dedicated section. It's as limited and frustrating as Google News on Android.
They've also hidden the snippet text that let me quickly judge whether or not I wanted to click through to a full article. Presumably that's to protect themselves against European copyright disputes, but it's a big step backward for users.
I'm trying Bing News for the first time today. It still has snippets and time ranges, but also lets me see only a small fraction of the stories that match my search criteria. Yahoo News apparently doesn't permit time based searches at all. What other products best fill this Google News-shaped void for news power-searchers?
EDIT: for now I can get the old, powerful Google News by initiating a regular Google search and then clicking over to the News tab. But I wouldn't count on this escape hatch remaining much longer :-(
- niutech 9y agoIf you don't like it, you can get back to the classic version of Google News by installing the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...) and switching the user agent string on Google News to Windows Phone 8.
- fosco 9y agoconfirmed, this works. Thank you. guess this is a reason to learn python and try scraping google news and headlines to look more like a hackernews page with article descriptions. my python-fu is low so if anyone thinks this is 'easy' or already done please let me know.