How to Tell Google Which News Sites You Actually Trust
Google's Preferred Sources lets you choose which sites show up more in Search, Discover and News. Here's how to set it up in a minute and why it matters.
Since AI answers started sitting at the top of Google, a lot of searches end before you ever click a real website. The AI reads the pages, summarises them, and you get a tidy paragraph instead of a list of sources. Handy, sometimes. But it also means the sites you actually trust get buried under a machine's digest.
Google has quietly given you a lever to pull against that. It's called Preferred Sources, and it lets you tell Google which publications you want to see more of across Search, Discover and Google News. It takes about a minute to set up, and most people have no idea it exists. Here's how it works and how to turn it on.
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