Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now

Google News has significantly degraded as a research tool, with its filtering features becoming increasingly unreliable. The author, a journalist who relied on the platform to search U.S. news from specific time periods, now receives results from social media sites, unidentifiable foreign languages, international publications, and articles from months or years ago—despite setting specific parameters. Google appears to have deprioritized the platform in favor of pursuing AI initiatives.