Google Preferred Sources: How To Choose Which News Comes To Your Screen
Google News is a popular app among users who can catch up on the latest headlines and updates across politics, sports, and more. The company has made changes to its curation lists over the years and for the first time Google has offered you an easier way to see news and updates from the sources that you prefer.
Preferred Sources, as Google calls it, is available in the US and India allowing you to stay up-to-date with the favourite blogs and news sites that you regularly follow or even subscribe to.
This is a new form of personalisation which ensures that you don't see content from other sources that can be irrelevant also.
Using the new preferred sources option in Google for news and updates is quite easy and you just have to enable the tool, select the source websites and apply the changes.
Google has not put a limit on the number of preferred sources you can add, and this was picked up from its learnings with the early set of Labs users that people really valued. The company is also giving publishers the access to connect with more users and make them choose their preferred sources, which in turn affects their visibility and readership for the platform.
In addition to this, Google's Gemini AI recently got two new updates that have been shared with the users. You get the new temporary chats in Gemini which works like Chrome incognito mode and does not store the chats or use it for training the AI models. You also get better ways to control how Gemini uses files like photos, videos and more.
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