
But few of the items I saw compelled me to read the article. Scroll far enough and you’ll get a basic, ambient sense of the day’s news.
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The best topic I saw in the feed was “fake news,” and featured an article from Lifehacker on how to spot it. The feed offered up articles on several of my interests: Netflix, Instagram, Game of Thrones, and the video game I’m currently playing (and have watched a bunch of YouTube videos about). The Google feed came to my account Tuesday afternoon, and I spent a long while scrolling through it. You can’t follow individual publishers today, but publishers will surely clamor for it, and Google told me it will consider adding that feature eventually. You can also tell Google you’re “done with this story” and avoid seeing future updates, or tell it you don’t want to see any more articles from a particular publisher. From there, you can follow a subject or share the item on other social networks. You can customize the feed by tapping the three dots on top of each card. Tap them and Google will work to bring you related content into the feed. News, sports, and entertainment stories are among the categories where you can expect to see follow buttons to start. When you perform searches in the app, a subset of results will now show a “follow” button alongside results. Facebook and Twitter give priority to latest updates Google says it’s working to prioritize relevance. Google says it’s a sign of the company’s strengths - it can reach into the long tail of articles on the web, and surface them to audiences that missed them the first time around. In most feeds, a 10-month-old blog post would appear stale and unwelcome. In a demo at Google’s offices in San Francisco on Tuesday, a product manager’s feed included articles about the Oakland Athletics, a trending article about the Tour de France, and a 10-month-old blog post about a classical musician who she had previously seen in concert. With the introduction of the feed, the Google Now brand is going away, and the updates it used to contain are moving to a secondary tab called “updates.” The main space underneath the search bar will now contain a stream of cards related to your interests. Previously, the space below the search bar was reserved for Google Now, the company’s predictive search feature, which displayed personalized weather, traffic, sports scores, and other information.
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Google previewed its new feed in December, when it introduced the feature to its Android app. Google is hoping you’ll begin opening its app the way you do Facebook or Twitter, checking it reflexively throughout the day for quick hits of news and information. The feed, which includes items drawn from your search history and topics you choose to follow, is designed to turn Google’s app into a destination for browsing as well as search.

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The feed will appear in its flagship app for Android and iOS, simply called Google. Google today is rolling out its take on the news feed, a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other content.
