I wanted to ditch Google News, but the alternatives made it worse

Archival newspaper articles could still be accessed via the Google News Search page, but key functionalities such as the timeline AFP fact check: Danish farming laws view and ability to specify more than 10 results per page were removed. On June 6, 2006, Google News expanded, adding a News Archive Search feature, offering users historical archives going back more than 200 years from some of its sources. A pull-down menu at the top of search results enables users to specify the time period in which they wish to search for articles.

There have been growing reports of Google Pixel users experiencing Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth issues after a January 2026 update. “Vibe coding,” as it’s come to be known, is exactly what you can do with Nothing’s new “Essential Apps,” which lets you create homescreen widgets, “apps,” using text prompts and the help of AI – but I’m not fully sold just yet. One of the places AI has really made an impact is on app coding, opening new doors both for professionals and the casual user.

Just the one code being given away when thousands of people are likely to get involved feels a bit stingy, although at the time of writing Ubisoft’s post hasn’t exactly blown up, so you might be in with a shot. And Google AI decided to advertise our big Verge Awards at CES 2026 story as “Robots & AI Take CES,” which was basically the opposite of our conclusion in that story. It characterizes these new offerings as “trending topics,” even though each “trending topic” presents itself as one of our stories, links to our stories, and uses our images, all without competent fact-checking to ensure the AI is getting them right.

Providing access to context and multiple perspectives

It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News can personalize based on some of those activities. You can have Google News show more stories that you’ll like and fewer that you won’t. You can change more settings in your Google News app, including notifications. We want to ensure not only that users can readily discover a diverse range of authoritative reporting, but that news partners benefit from creating it. An independent and thriving ecosystem of news sources representing diverse perspectives is essential to our mission, and to a well-informed society.

• Google News can personalize based on some of those activities.
• Apple said the commitments announced on Tuesday reflected its constructive engagement with the CMA and its pragmatic approach to regulation.
• Pair the Google News mobile app with our Desktop website, news.google.com, and enjoy your personalized content across all your devices.
• Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age.
• We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously.
• Some reports on the Commerce Department’s decision have misleading headlines that could make you think the government did an about-face, so I don’t blame you for being confused.

This policy was again changed on September 29, 2015 where this limit was changed to three articles per day. The reader’s first click to the content is free, and the number after that would be set by the content provider. Its front page provides roughly the first 200 characters of the article and a link to its larger content. Google released a beta version in September 2002 and the official app in January 2006. You can find your searches and other activity saved to your Google Account in My Activity.

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Your Google Account saves your searches and other activity across Google products to My Activity. Can I add more than one source? Google will still show a diverse range of outlets, but MedCity News will be prioritized whenever we have fresh, relevant coverage of your search. With their Preferred Sources feature, you can take the steering wheel from the algorithm and tell Google exactly which voices you trust. FBI Director Kash Patel posted videos​ of a person outside the home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie, on the morning of her disappearance.

Pair the Google News mobile app with our Desktop website, news.google.com, and enjoy your personalized content across all your devices. Medical Dialogues, an Indian digital publication serving doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals with medical news and research updates, is building an AI-powered system that personalises content based on users’ specialties and reading behavior. An expansion of the service was announced on September 8, 2008, when Google News began to offer indexed content from scanned newspapers. A new law in Spain, lobbied for by the Spanish newspaper publishers’ association AEDE, required for news aggregators to pay news services for the right to use snippets of their stories on Google News. Google appeared to be backing away from the experiment, but now tells The Verge that its AI headlines in Google Discover are a feature, one that “performs well for user satisfaction.” I once again see lots of misleading claims every time I check my phone.