1 week ago

Google Adds Preferred Sources and More Personalization Controls

Google is giving people more control over the news and information they see.

A new Preferred Sources button will let you choose websites you like.

Those websites may then appear more often in parts of Google Search.

Google Discover will also let you describe what topics or links you want to see more or less of.

For example, you could ask for road-trip videos without camping.

Discover will remember these requests and adjust your feed.

Google News on Android will let you choose topics for daily audio briefings.

The briefings will show where the information came from and link to full articles.

Google says more than 600,000 different sources have already been selected by users.

Key facts

Preferred Sources: A website button that adds the publisher to a user’s Preferred Sources and returns the user to the page they were reading.
Search visibility: Preferred publishers may appear more often in Top Stories, AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Sources selected: Google says users have selected more than 600,000 unique sources.
Discover controls: Users can describe topics or links they want to see more or less of through the three-dot menu.
Audio briefings: Google News on Android will allow users to choose specific topics for daily audio briefings.
Attribution: Google News audio briefings will provide source attribution and links to full articles.
Publisher access: Publishers can obtain the Preferred Sources button code through Google Search Central documentation.

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