Google News went down and I tried Bing News – I might never go back

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News went down and I tried

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News – I might never go back

If we’re being honest with ourselves, none of us like

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News, at least not since a series of design overhauls that made it less inviting, dense, newsy, and useful. So when

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News went down for hours on Friday, the – ahem – news was met with a mixture of frustration and a little relief.

Oh, good, we’re freed and maybe free to go elsewhere. I ended up on, of all places,

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News.

I’m sure you’ve heard of

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,

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’s search engine that was largely ignored until

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added OpenAI’s GPT to it (and later Copilot), which made it the first AI-infused search engine.

Like

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’s search reaches across multiple content categories, including images, video, shopping, maps, and news. I’ve used various parts of the

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search platform, with a heavy focus on its newer AI capabilities, but can’t say I’ve ever looked at news. Even after

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’s disastrous

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News redesign in 2022, I didn’t check out

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News.

Then

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News went temporarily “poof!” and I needed a news aggregation source. So, I opened

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on the desktop and selected News. My first reaction was, “Oh, how simple, clean, accessible.” 

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At the Top of

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News is a grid of six top stories; each has a large image with the headline below and slightly bleeding into the image above. While headlines from other news sources are not listed in each box,

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News smartly includes media outlet icons and information about how many other stories on the topic are available. A quick click on one of the “relevant news” links and you get another smartly-designed page with a grid that prioritizes the text headlines, followed by videos and then a list of more news on the topic.

On the

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News home page below that top stories grid,

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News jumps into a small grid of “For You” stories (

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News may think I care a bit too much about politics), and below that a side-scrolling set of “Trending on

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” news boxes.

It’s here

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News takes a breather, with a clever side-scrolling “Take a break” section that features lighter stories. It’s fortunately only one story deep, so it doesn’t overwhelm the page. Below that it hops into geolocated local news, which is followed by a long list of “more news” headlines.

Fairly balanced

I think

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News achieves a good balance here of prioritizing the top news, giving you a slate of tailored news, what other people are reading or discovering in search, a tiny break, and then getting to the meat of the news cycle. This structure is clean and logical.

Where

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News always leaned hard into news categories,

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News takes a lighter touch (there is a broad category list on the left side) and it may be a better one, since you don’t feel that any news is shoehorned into an unnecessary category.

This is a generally more inviting feel than

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News, which often seems to be trying too hard, especially in tailoring perhaps too much of the news to my interests when, in reality, I want news that’s important and interesting. I do have my preferences but if I see too much news about only the stuff I care about, I won’t learn anything new (and also might miss out on some differing points of view).

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News is hyper-aware of fake and contested news and cares deeply about expertise and sources. How do I know?

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News insists on showing you “Suggested Sources” and a whole “Fact Check” section. The latter is so poorly designed I often can’t tell whether the “Facts” presented are false or not.

Visually,

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News wins by a mile. I just don’t enjoy looking at the pale pastel

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News colors anymore and miss the stark, clear look of 2006 or even the OG

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News. I like the consistency of

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News and that, in general, it’s not trying too hard.

There’s no

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News app and even if you download the

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app it basically hides

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News under “Trending.” It’s in the mobile space that

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News almost outperforms

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. Almost.

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News on mobile is full of bizarre repetition and often insists, to my chagrin, on defaulting to “For You” news and I always have to select “Headlines” so I can see less filtered news.

If I have one request for

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and

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, it’s that they bring

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News to mobile as its own app and essentially replicate the lovely desktop experience. Then I can truly leave

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News behind.

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