Google Now Lets You Specific the Sources You Prefer to Receive News and Results From

Google Hands Publishers a Button to Reclaim Readers From AI Summaries

Google just gave news organizations and other content creators a modest but tangible tool to push back against years of vanishing referral traffic. The company announced on August 20 that publishers can now embed a “Preferred Sources” button directly on their websites. Readers who click it designate that site as one they want to see more often in Google Search, Discover, and the company’s expanding AI features. The move arrives as publishers hav…

Google gives publishers a Preferred Sources button

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google now lets you specific the sources you prefer to receive news and results from

Google is launching a new button that publishers and news sources can add to their websites. The Preferred Sources button lets visitors to a site let Google know that this is a site they know and trust, and that it should be used to personalize search results, newsfeeds and more. Working with Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, Google says that there are benefits for publishers and web users alike. But this is not the only new method of pers…

Google Will Soon Let You Customize Discover Feed Using AI Prompts

It's also introducing an embeddable Preferred Sources button for publishers and customizable audio briefings in Google News.

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your Discover feed. As shown in a video shared by Google, tapping the feature will open a chatbot-style interface, where you'll be able t…

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.