UpdateMay 9, 20261 min read
Google's 'Preferred Sources' Feature: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Google's new feature allows users to manually select preferred news outlets, but this move is more about exerting control over the source layer than promoting quality journalism. This shift has significant implications for the future of search and the role of AI in shaping online content.
Google frames "Preferred Sources" as a way to bring more quality journalism into search. In practice, it shifts responsibility to a manual setting almost no one will use. That gives Google a user-choice argument for users and regulators while it keeps sidelining the open web in favor of its own AI interfaces. The article Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search appeared first on The Decoder.