Maybe I can use this thread to find out something interesting, or at least to get a rant off my chest. Does anyone have inside information on why news.google.co

Maybe I can use this thread to find out something interesting, or at least to get a rant off my chest. Does anyone have inside information on why news.google.com is so bad? Years ago it was a decent news feed, but more recently I find the quality to be abysmal. Despite trying to click and offer (mostly negative) feedback on stories, every day it presumes I want to hear more about celebrity marriage gossip and fatal car accidents in random American towns. And no, I don't want yet another story about another Amber Alert in Oklahoma (I'm a thousand miles from Oklahoma) or a dismembered body found in a ditch (the headline didn't specify where). For weeks I'd click daily that I didn't want any more Sudoku solver hints, but every single day there would be a new "story" about it. It made me worry that there was an error in the feedback mechanism that flips the sign: less of this actually meant more of this. Eventually I solved this by adding all those sites to the "hide all stories from" list, but "fewer stories like this" still seems to be a placebo. Making things worse, it doesn't update on any regular schedule: there's no way to say "OK, I've seen these stories, please don't show them to me again". I live in a small town that doesn't tend to make the news, and (I'm not making this up) it's still showing me a story "2 cited for stealing catalytic converters" from last February! How can there be no way not to get rid of old stories? Anyway, is there any inside story from Google on why it's the way it is? Is it an office politics issue? No clear path to profitability and hence it's only worked on by interns? Given all the recent progress in AI and informatics, I can't figure out why it would consistently give me such terrible and useless stories.