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Ugh. This means the two-column view is disappearing (it was an option in labs). Infuriating that phone-driven design is destroying the desktop experience.

ekianjo 9y ago
Thats been the trend for years now with the "mobile first" principle advocated by bootstrap and many others. Very sad trend overall.
- cratermoon 9y ago
  It's based on trends, though. Look at the traffic stats for any major website and mobile is outpacing desktop everywhere.
  - bpodgursky 9y ago
    Yeah and I get that you'd do mobile first as a startup, but Google news probably has > 100mm daily views, you'd think they could afford the extra .5 engineers it takes to maintain the old UI.
  - ekianjo 9y ago
    Yes but Id rather have a choice instead of being force fed a mobile UI on my desktop monitor.
  - twhb 9y ago
    I see that quoted a lot, and never really dug into. - What about purchases? I'd bet that the vast majority of online - not in-app - purchases happen on desktop. - Are these companies devoting extra resources to their mobile websites and to marketing them?
  - beezle 9y ago
    I thought the whole idea with html5 and responsive this and that was the ability to very easily serve one layout for mobile and another for traditional desktop. This redesign is god awful for desktop use. The Bing alternative is only marginally better. I honestly have no idea who they test these on before release to think they are a) good and b) an improvement.
visarga 9y ago
I find two column news presentation distracting. Scrolling vertically on one single column seems more efficient than scanning two columns, jumping around between them.
- taurath 9y ago
  I much prefer a lot of information where you don't have to scroll - its far easier to keep one's place with more landmarks.
taurath 9y ago
I will try it for a day, but it looks like this is the end of me using google news, a site that I have visited daily for the last 8 years. I was still clinging to 2-column view despite their efforts to change it. * Too little information on the page * WAY too much blank space on desktop * It seems optimized for the brand new user experience, rather being than a powerful tool. Stop getting rid of options * Fact check section is useless - it should be in-line related to the story if you're going to have it. * "More about" seems like a less useful google search. Where's the value here? Picking "NASDAQ:SPLS" doesn't even show the stock price, while if I enter it into google I get links to company stats and the stock price Imagine if the NYTimes did a design like this - they would be out of business. So incredibly frustrating.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  Same. Google may still have the best database but their product design has really gone into the toilet.

ekianjo 9y ago

Thats been the trend for years now with the "mobile first" principle advocated by bootstrap and many others. Very sad trend overall.

cratermoon 9y ago
It's based on trends, though. Look at the traffic stats for any major website and mobile is outpacing desktop everywhere.
- bpodgursky 9y ago
  Yeah and I get that you'd do mobile first as a startup, but Google news probably has > 100mm daily views, you'd think they could afford the extra .5 engineers it takes to maintain the old UI.
- ekianjo 9y ago
  Yes but Id rather have a choice instead of being force fed a mobile UI on my desktop monitor.
- twhb 9y ago
  I see that quoted a lot, and never really dug into. - What about purchases? I'd bet that the vast majority of online - not in-app - purchases happen on desktop. - Are these companies devoting extra resources to their mobile websites and to marketing them?
- beezle 9y ago
  I thought the whole idea with html5 and responsive this and that was the ability to very easily serve one layout for mobile and another for traditional desktop. This redesign is god awful for desktop use. The Bing alternative is only marginally better. I honestly have no idea who they test these on before release to think they are a) good and b) an improvement.

visarga 9y ago

I find two column news presentation distracting. Scrolling vertically on one single column seems more efficient than scanning two columns, jumping around between them.

taurath 9y ago
I much prefer a lot of information where you don't have to scroll - its far easier to keep one's place with more landmarks.

taurath 9y ago

I will try it for a day, but it looks like this is the end of me using google news, a site that I have visited daily for the last 8 years. I was still clinging to 2-column view despite their efforts to change it. * Too little information on the page * WAY too much blank space on desktop * It seems optimized for the brand new user experience, rather being than a powerful tool. Stop getting rid of options * Fact check section is useless - it should be in-line related to the story if you're going to have it. * "More about" seems like a less useful google search. Where's the value here? Picking "NASDAQ:SPLS" doesn't even show the stock price, while if I enter it into google I get links to company stats and the stock price Imagine if the NYTimes did a design like this - they would be out of business. So incredibly frustrating.

anigbrowl 9y ago
Same. Google may still have the best database but their product design has really gone into the toilet.