Now that Google is garbage, this will allow you to choose your own information sources

Google seems to have destroyed the quality of its research results (and its reputation) by loading its flow with sponsored results, pages increased by the black magic of SEO and the SLOATE generated by AI. So, it is to put the control in your hands, for the better or for the worst. The company announced today via a blog article A new feature entitled Favorite Sources which will allow users to select their own favorite media to appear at the top of their personalized search flow.

According to Google, feature has already started to deploy for users in the United States and India. Thanks to favorite sources, users will be able to select the points of sale they like to read, be it national vert points, local papers or niche blogs. Once selected, Google will start to fill your flow with related stories from your chosen outlets, displaying the relevant results in the Section of Research Stories section.

If you are eligible to use the functionality, you will see an icon next to the “Top Stories” section of the search when you press Google with a request. Press it and you can search for your favorite points of sale. Check the publications you want and Google will start using more results from these publications, both in the higher stories section and in a new section which may appear in your results with the title “of your sources”. Depending on the penis, there is no limit on the number of points of sale that you can add to your favorite sources list, so load it if you wish.

Google also gives tools to publishers to encourage their readers to add their publication to the list of a person’s favorite sources, including a “call to action” button that can be displayed that reads “add as a favorite source on Google”. So prepare to see this when publications try to hang on to their Google research traffic for expensive life. (Totally unrelated, but if you want to add Gizmodo to your favorite sources, it would be really cool from you.)

Google denied that its Pusés en AI and that summaries have caused damage to traffic for publications, despite many contrary evidence, including major publications reporting major departures from visitors from links served by Google. The company has also rejected the suggestion that its results worsen because of the malicious actors trying to manipulate SEO and the algorithms or its own waste organized by AI. But it is difficult to read this solution “choose your own sources” as a kind of tacit admission that its results do not really give people what they want. Now is it a good idea to let people actively strengthen their own views by selecting the sources they want to see? This is a whole other question.