Google Top Stories Grouped In Topic Sections On Desktop

Jun 30, 2022 • 7:41 am | comments (1) by | Filed Under Google Search Engine
 

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Google Search is now grouping some of its Top Stories sections for some queries by topics. This was working on mobile for a while but is now reportedly working for the desktop Top Stories Google Search results.

Here is a screenshot for a query on [biden] where Google Search on desktop is showing a topic section for abortion articles and a topic section for the US military in Europe. You can click on the image to enlarge or check it out yourself for that query.

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Yes, the layout is now new, it is from December 2021 but the topics on desktop search is new according to Shalom Goodman, who is a news SEO and would know this.

He shared more screenshots on Twitter:

It makes sense to group some queries by topics for the Top Stories section.

Also, I wasn't sure if this was new, but the "Topics In News" section on the right is supposedly new:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

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