Google has confirmed that they have dropped the “In the News” box with the “Top Stories” box. This change seems to just be an aesthetic update to the design in order to make the news box on desktop match that on the mobile version. In fact, this change happened with the rollout of the new Google desktop user interface release this week.
Business Insider reported that this was launched to combat the fake news issues surrounding the company. But Google told us this change has been in the works for months, well before all the discussion around “fake news.” So I doubt this change has anything to do with that topic, but rather it was a title change to the box during the launch of the new desktop search interface.
Courtesy of SearchEngineLand
