<story><title>How does one appear in the Google News carousel?</title><url>https://char.gd/blog/2019/google-news-is-broken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boardwaalk</author><text>Speaking generally about Google News, it&amp;#x27;s amazing that Apple of all companies has leap frogged Google News with Apple News in terms of customization on top of curation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s infuriating when a redesign has half the functionality of the original. It&amp;#x27;s not like it was feature-rich in the first place!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s silly not being able to remove entertainment (aka celebrity gossip) or sports (even if I was a sport fan, I probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t care about &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; sport -- why can&amp;#x27;t I filter to MotoGP or what have you?) and having science be mostly several times regurgitated pop-sci and health be mostly fearing mongering nonsense.&lt;p&gt;I also regularly notice failures where articles they group together are almost entirely unrelated.&lt;p&gt;In the end, I still do RSS (although support in certain areas of interest are pretty weak) and Twitter (in a read-only fashion) and go to Google News over Apple News only by habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtmt</author><text>I’ve looked at Apple News, and while its sources can be customized to some extent, the app is not yet available in all regions (though it’s been around for more than a couple of years). IIRC, it’s coming to Canada shortly. It also doesn’t allow one to follow sites that Apple doesn’t know about or care about, and if you change the region setting on the device, you’re no longer allowed to follow certain channels (even those that are not region specific or are smaller&amp;#x2F;individual sites).&lt;p&gt;Apple is excruciatingly slow on this and a few other things, whereas Google News, for all its faults, is available in many countries and regions.&lt;p&gt;This is where, and why, RSS becomes a better option.</text></comment>
<story><title>How does one appear in the Google News carousel?</title><url>https://char.gd/blog/2019/google-news-is-broken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boardwaalk</author><text>Speaking generally about Google News, it&amp;#x27;s amazing that Apple of all companies has leap frogged Google News with Apple News in terms of customization on top of curation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s infuriating when a redesign has half the functionality of the original. It&amp;#x27;s not like it was feature-rich in the first place!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s silly not being able to remove entertainment (aka celebrity gossip) or sports (even if I was a sport fan, I probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t care about &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; sport -- why can&amp;#x27;t I filter to MotoGP or what have you?) and having science be mostly several times regurgitated pop-sci and health be mostly fearing mongering nonsense.&lt;p&gt;I also regularly notice failures where articles they group together are almost entirely unrelated.&lt;p&gt;In the end, I still do RSS (although support in certain areas of interest are pretty weak) and Twitter (in a read-only fashion) and go to Google News over Apple News only by habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>Apple News is broken in a crazier way, you need to own an iOS device to see it. I mean, what the hell?</text></comment>