Google is rightly trying to change anything about how Search works. You don’t just play with your main product. But today, a long-awaited adjustment is finally being implemented for the news coverage that appears in the Survey. Google’s Full Coverage feature – which debuted with Google News in 2018 and the company announced it would come to Search in 2019 – is now active to help provide a little extra context for great stories.
The feature aims to help people understand what’s going on in the news, especially for complicated topics that are constantly changing. For such topics, like developing stories, you’ll get a new “more news about” button below the topically generated carousel that opens an additional page with links to more coverage locations, organized into categories like “top news” from biggest names and ” local news “for publishers closest to you, offering multiple angles to review developments.
Google can also take long-running stories that span a longer period of time – the ongoing pandemic is a good example – and put up topic-related coverage that enhances the context nearby. So if a big story about a subject happens, you’ll also see things like explainers about the previous story or previous developments to fill any gaps in knowledge.
In short: if you don’t have time to research a topic when a big story arises, Google makes it easy to extract some details about the history, multiple perspectives and context.
The new Full Coverage feature is available today on mobile devices in English in the US, with other languages and locations planned later.
