Among the other sections of Google’s search, “News” is one of the most fresh on the market block. While it’s true that the amplification in demand for current news after September 11th, 2001 had caused Google to start working on this project, News wasn’t actually released until much later and didn’t come out of beta until the year 2006. The service has made many modifications in its features and algorithm over time, but the most visible change is likely the layout of the site itself. There have been many alterations to the overall appearance and structure of Google News pages, and another major set of changes is now being rolled out.

There are numerous “ideals” being communicated through these changes. The first is Google’s standard minimalism. Rather than looking through large numerals of full stories, Google is now crafting a one-column, clustered, and collapsed setup as the default view. The clusters that is already a feature of Google’s organization in News, is now removing any story summary that is for non-top articles for a given story. The top story will still get its partial summary and headline, while everything else will form a part of the headlines only. Users can then click on the story cluster to enlarge this collapsed construction into a more full display that includes story details and a few new extras, such as labels and all.
Beyond clumping information into neatly packed, easy to skim segments, though, Google is also showing off their love for the media. When users set off into a story cluster, they will be able to utilize a scrolling bar to look through various media images, video, etc from all the pages of the cluster.

And the last thing, but definitely not the least, Google is appending personalized news stories in the Top Stories section. Apart from the three standard news stories, users will now see three or more additional stories picked exclusively for them.