Google search is adding a news feed to its homepage on mobile

Google search is adding a news feed to its homepage on mobile

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17896298/google-discover-feed-search-homepage-journey-collections-topics-research

Google is announcing changes to its search product today, tied in part to the 20th anniversary of the company. The biggest announcement is that Google is rebranding its news feed — that list of items that appears below the default search bar in the Google mobile app and when you swipe left from the home screen on Android — as “Discover.” It will now be on the Google homepage on all mobile browsers, which is a huge shift for the company as it works to better organize information and help users understand context. The news was unveiled at a press event in San Francisco this morning.

Discover will do more to show relevant content — stuff that might not necessarily be just recent news. It will have topic links to dive deeper into content you’re seeing in the feed. There will be a little slider on the lower-left corner of each card that will let you increase or decrease the amount of news you’ll see in your feed. (At the moment, most of the feed is personalized, and it will prioritize entertainment and other news items based on your interactions with it.) Discover will also support multilingual items, so you can get both English and Spanish items in your feed. More languages are coming soon. Many of these additions feel pulled from the redesigned Google News app, which was first unveiled back at the company’s I/O developer conference.