Goodbye News, Hello Top Stories

Posted by Dr-PeteIn October of 2014, Google launched "In the news", replacing their traditional news vertical results with a broader range of sources from across the web. Last week, Google's news results were shaken up again with the launch of "Top Stories", a card-style set of featured stories. Here's an example from a search for "John Glenn": Even John Glenn's death somehow can't escape becoming a Trump story, but that's a topic for another time. What do we know about the shift to "Top Stories", and does ...