Google News gets more personal with desktop redesign
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#60MKF)
The new-look Google News makes local news and custom topics easier to find. | Image: Google Google News has been given a fresh lick of paint for desktop users on its 20th birthday, with a redesign that gives more prominence to local news and personalized content.
Users can now more easily customize the topics they're shown by hitting the blue customize" button in the right hand column (it appears just below Picks For You"). They can also add multiple locations to the Local News" section by hitting the settings button to the right of the Local News header.
In practical terms, the biggest change is that various categories of news - like world, business, science, and health - have been moved from the left-hand side of the screen to a menu bar at the top. You can compare the before and after in the screenshots of the new...