GoKawiilAndy Walker / Android Authority
Google News is easily one of the most popular news aggregators on the planet, with more than a billion Android downloads and over 100 million monthly visits to its web platform. With aggregated content from over 20,000 publishers, there’s a lot to love about Google News. Of course, there’s also plenty to complain about.
I personally use Google News as my go-to source, but I certainly wish a few things were handled a little differently. With that in mind, here are five features I think Google News desperately needs to add.
Is there any new feature you'd like to see come to Google News? 92 votes Preferred sources 17 % True blocklisting 24 % Topic-specific keyword blocking 10 % Paywall filters 40 % Better grouping of related event coverage 3 % Other (let us know in the comments) 5 %
Preferred sources
Joe Maring / Android Authority
Last year, Google rolled out its Preferred Sources feature for Google Search, allowing users to select trusted websites. At the time, one of our own Android Authority team members believed this feature would make more sense for Discover or Google News. I agree completely.
Technically, your search preferences already follow across your account to some degree, but there’s very limited control over this. You might also argue that Google News already has something like this with the Following feature.
While this sort of works similarly, following a source simply adds it to the Following tab, and it has zero impact on the main feed. I’d love the ability to make my preferred sources the ones that are most common across not only the Google News main feed but all the sub-sections as well.
True blocklisting
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