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Google Search is adding a news feed to its homepage on mobile
Google fee is also getting an upgrade, now it’s called Discover, 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 as “Discover”. It will be on the google home page on all mobile browsers, which is a huge shift of the company as it works to better organize information and help users understand context.
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 a little slider on the lower-left of each card that will let you increase or decrease the amount of that types of news you’ll see in your feed. 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, first unveiled back at the company’s I/O developer conference.
Google is also using computer vision to add more visuals to search. It has a new format called “Stories” that are based on its AMP standard. Google says that it’s “doubling down” on Stories in search, which presumably means we’ll be seeing more of them “in the coming months.” Stories will also appear inline in search, as well as “featured videos” that will show “salient segments” from videos. It creates an auto-advancing carousel of videos, showing just the relevant section of each video.
Google images is also getting an update. theres and entirely new ranking algorithm for the image search Additionally, it will be showing more “web content” inside the search, including specific page information on the search results page the new UI will come to desktops this coming Thursday, September 27th . Google stories are also getting added to the image search.