Nearly two weeks after rolling out a Google News redesign, Google has added a new feature to the page in hopes of placating complainers. The feature lets people opt to view news stories in two columns, unlike the initial redesign that listed all stories in a single long column.

To call the response following the June 30th release of the redesigned News site angry would be an understatement.

"Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate, it, hate it!!!!! Get my point?" one person using the name iJustinJ wrote in a Google News forum.

"What is happening to you? Why are [you] doing this to us?" wrote another tortured user registered in the forum as asldfa sdflkh. The forum includes many hundreds of comments from people distressed about the changes.

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