To fix the issue where all your news is "jumbled together" find the News For You line and change View As from List to Sections. Well, I have tried the deleted cookies suggestion & I still get the new format! Google, tell us, did an alien invade your brains and took over the company? Back to Yahoo I go. You guys suck.....big time.So after googling (ha) the google news news story, i have found someone who we can directly contact to express our dissatisfaction. KEVIN STOLT. Google engineer who blogged about the new google news redesign.http://www.facebook.com/kevin.stoltsend him a FB message to complainI just discovered that the page is more user-friendly and functional when viewed in the old Lynx text browser. It can't pull any of that javascript box resizing stuff, and it fills up the empty space more efficiently. Say hello to the future- 1994!here is how I rolled back to old google news layout by anthony_anthonyunder "Other News Edition", choose "Canadian English", it's back!now some further tweaking to make a USA Google News homepage on the Canadian SiteUnder "Create a custom section"in the "Editon" box, choose "U.S."in the "Section" box, choose "World"Back to the Google News homepage, you will see a new section called "World (U.S.)" besides the old "World" sectionDelete the old "World" section by Click the "x"Repeat these steps to add "Business(U.S.)", "Entertaiment (U.S.)"... delete the old sectionsIDIOTS. Leave google as is, stop trying to fix what's not broken. You're all lucky I'm not Google CEO, you'll all be fired STAT.
This is making me so angry I want to smack something, what makes you think you can just change the page and expect people will automatically like it even though tens of testers said it sucks? That is arrogance to in its most extreme case. I am not going to use Google News anymore, its as cluttered as DIGG.com you actually have to go down aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way to see some stuff and will end up missing many stories as well.So, I'm a human factors/usability consultant, and I just need to know: "We'd love to hear your feedback" as part of our "Homepage Redesign experiment" means exactly...? You basically wasted everyones time with this discussion. It was clear that users liked it the way that it was and disliked the new layout. Usability is not Google's strong suite, and, apparently, neither is making use of online discussions and user feedback.Next time, since you already know what you are going to do, just do it. Don't pretend to listen to users like you care. It is quite insulting. If this is driving you as crazy as it is me, try news.bing.com and put in feature requests for customization. If they get a swarm of old Google people who come over and want those features they'll probably do it. The Google/Bing competition these days is fierce enough that for a chance to steal away some Google customers I think Microsoft would probably make some real changes in order to keep us. We might end up with a better product on both that way!In the end I think voting with your feet is the most effective way. Google wants us to stick around and give it a few days to see if we come around to it but it sucks too much for that to me, so Bing it is until Google fixes this back the old way. I would give it more time to try but this is just too disruptive to my staying up on the news, something I consider important to me, to let Google screw with me for their benefit. If they'd asked me if I wanted to be in the test group I would have said no.I don't like single columns and the thing on the right. The old page wasn't earth shattering either but the new one is horrible. Give us options to arrange it the way we want.
Also, I hate when I go to click the "all #,### news articles" link that the link scrolls down and out from under my cursor because I moved the cursor into the article box. Jeez folks, more thought would have been nice.
Google News had been my home page since I discovered it several years ago. I had customized the layout to access news that was important to me and deleted that for which I had no interest.
Wake up Google!
New format sucks, give us a change back button.
CHANGE - IT - BACK!!!
CHANGE - IT - BACK!!!
CHANGE - IT - BACK!!!
Today it's just angry mobs on the help forums...
Fix this before it turns to angry mobs on the corporate lawn with torches and pitchforks.
Signs and Symptoms of Early Onset Arthritis:
#1: The new Google News layout.
#2: Joint swelling and pain - especially in the first or second finger with respect to scrolling the new Google News layout.
#3: Wrists, hands, and knuckles are affected - can also lead to carpal tunnel or worse due to increased demand on the scrolling fingers.
Remedies:
#1. Change the layout back to the classic view.
#2. Change online News Provider - looks like the only option at this point due to no ability to switch to classic view.
The new design is a bad joke, who on earth can ever like that?Although not as good as using the old Google News, and because you must log in, I've found that I can pretty much modify the iGoogle page to simulate the layout and customization of the old and preferred Google News. It took me a while, but found that iGoogle is now much more usable. I've been able to delete most the extraneous crap and show only what I want. My search for a replacement has taken me to http:\\bing.com\news, http:\\news.ask.com\news and http:\\my.yahoo.com\. Yahoo has permitted some customization, but not to the extend the old Google News did. I've also investigated some not so notable aggregate news sites such as jimmyr.com, newscred.com and icurrent.com. Although all are superior to the mess that is now Google News, I couldn't quite "feel" the comfort that I had with the old site.
Also, the "news for you" tab always starts open, even though I don't use it an always close it.
Gah!
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