Nathan McAlone, reporting for BusinessInsider: Following criticism over fake news on its platform, Google plans to remove its “In the news” section from the top of desktop search results in a matter of weeks, according to a source familiar with the matter. It will be replaced by a carousel of “Top stories” similar to what now exists on mobile. This move had been planned for quite some time, the source said. The removal of the word “news” will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google’s human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product. Earlier this month, Google faced scrutiny when one of its top results for “final election count” was fake news. The top result in Google Search’s “In the news” section was a WordPress blog named “70 News,” which falsely claimed Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000. He didn’t.

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