Tired of Google always recommending the same media to you? Now you can choose them yourself

BarcelonaWhen you do a Google search related to a current event, it's common for the search engine to highlight a series of news related to what you're looking for. Google chooses which news and which media outlets it highlights according to its own algorithm, and until now there was no way to choose which media it promoted more and which ones it didn't. But this has changed: now the user can choose which media outlets they want to be highlighted more. They do this through the "Source preferences" option, which until recently was only available in English in the United States and which now works in Spanish.

The mechanism for choosing the media is simple: you just need to visit the "Source preferences" option, type the web address of the media outlets you want to be highlighted more in the dialog box and mark them as selected, as you can see in the image below.

Another way to access this option is, when you have performed any search, to click on the button to the right of the title "Featured news", which you can see in the first image of this news item. You can add as many media outlets as you want as preferred sources and modify the list whenever you want. It should be taken into account that this does not mean that from now on we will only see sources from these media outlets, but that they will be prioritized over others, which may continue to appear. Google's algorithm continues to be the one that chooses, but the search engine assures that it will take into account the user's preferences.

Follow ARA also in mobile news

the profile of ARA on Google by clicking this linkIf you visit the profile of l'ARA on Google by clicking this link, and you click the "Follow on Google" button, it will be easier for you not to miss the most popular articles from this newspaper and you will depend less on the tech giant's algorithm. Doing so will help you choose what you see instead of letting only Google's algorithm choose.

Google continuously renews the Discover news channel, and it changes the algorithm that decides which content each person sees, because it is a personalized channel that adapts to each user. The specific functioning of this algorithm is unknown, Google does not detail it, but following ARA will make it easier for you not to miss the news from this newspaper. This means that they will not go unnoticed, but keep in mind that news that is only accessible to subscribers will remain so: only subscribers will be able to read them.

It will always be better to come and look for ARA news directly, by buying it in print, consulting its website, following its newsletters or downloading the mobile application (iPhone or Android), but now you have two more ways to stay up to date through the news that Google highlights both in the search engine and on mobile phones.