- Google’s News tab disappeared for many users, sparking concern in the journalism industry.
- Google stated the disappearance was part of an effort to better understand user preferences and involved testing different ways to show filters on Search.
- The company confirmed it has no plans to remove the News tab.
- The incident highlighted tensions between publishers and search companies, as platforms like Google threaten the digital media industry’s largely traffic-based business model with new text-generating AI search functions.
- The disappearance of the News tab, coupled with industry layoffs and degrading, AI-scrambled search results, has unsettled the journalism world.
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