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Published Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 12:01 PM PT Burbank · Sunday, June 28, 2026 · 12:01 PM · 72°F, 60% humidity, wind 0 mph SSE (gusts 2), 29.37 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 4 Google News Is Winning Because Everyone Else Forgot How to Be Useful Here’s the thing nobody wants to admit: Google News isn’t winning because it’s brilliant. It’s winning because the entire news industry spent the last fifteen years actively trying to make itself worse. ...

Why Google News Has Become the Junk Food Aisle of Information (And Why We Keep Coming Back for More) Right, let’s have a proper chinwag about something that’s been doing my head in: Google News. You know the thing—that algorithmic slot machine we all compulsively check whilst pretending to work, scrolling through headlines like we’re searching for meaning in a digital skip. It’s brilliant, it’s terrible, and it’s absolutely broken our brains. Let me explain why. ...

Why Google News Is Turning Us All Into Anxious Goldfish With Attention Spans of a Gnat Right, let’s have it out, shall we? I’m sitting here scrolling through Google News like some sort of digital archaeologist, digging through layers of catastrophe, celebrity gossip, and what appears to be seventeen different articles about a badger that got stuck in a Tesco, and I’ve had a proper realization: we’ve broken something fundamental about how humans are supposed to consume information, and nobody’s even pretending to fix it anymore. ...