What is Google Discover?
Google Discover is a personalized content feed you can access by swiping right from your Android home screen, opening the Google app, or starting a new Chrome tab on your phone. It uses your interests, Google Search history, and now your follows to serve up articles, videos, and social posts from around the web that you might want to see. For many publishers, it’s a major traffic source.
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In September, Google updated Discover with a Follow button and more types of content. Alongside articles, Discover now includes short-form videos and social posts from platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and X. These may appear grouped together under certain topics in a single card, which you can tap to open a dedicated space with related recent articles, videos, and posts.
How do I unfollow something in Discover?
If you change your mind about a publisher or creator, it’s easy to unfollow them.
- Open the Google app.
- Tap your profile icon in the top right.
- Go to Search personalization.–>
- Tap Following.<!–>
- You’ll see a list of everything you follow. Just tap Unfollow on the ones you don’t want anymore.
This “Following” setting also affects notifications and personalization across other Google products, so check it occasionally.
How do I see my favorite publishers in Google Search?
Beyond Discover, Google Search recently added the option to choose preferred news sources in Google Search’s Top Stories carousel. I also wrote a full guide that walks you through how to tell Google you want to see more of ZDNET when browsing news.
