One of the most useful functions offered by Google in the Android smartphones is Discover. Simply slide to the left from the home screen, and you will get a list of news and publications that can be important or interesting, depending on several factors such as location or our interests.
For many people, Discover has become its main news source; Google has meant that the function always shows news that affects the user or can be of interest. In turn, Discover has become one of the main sources of media visits, and a very valuable way to obtain new readers. However, the last discover update can end this.
How they have discovered in 9to5googlesome users are finding Social Network Publications at Discoverreplacing the usual publications. This is something striking because until now, Discover was the opposite of social networks, a place where to obtain reliable news and selected by professionals; But from now on, it seems that we can also start seeing publications of users who talk about issues related to what interests us.
At the moment, Discover is showing X publications (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube Shorts; For example, to show content related to a basketball team, Discover can show publications of the official team or videos recorded by fans and published on YouTube. At the moment, it seems that these two are the only social networks that are being linked in this way; But if Google is serious with this novelty, it is expected that other popular platforms such as Instagram, Facebook or Tiktok join the list.
Google has not yet made public statements about this novelty, so everything indicates that It has not yet been officially launched. A usual tactic on Google consists of launching news only in a small amount of accounts, and checking the reaction of the users before a global launch; Sometimes, a new function has been withdrawn for not being well received.
If Google finally confirms that you are putting links to social networks at Discover, you can completely change the type of content offered by the appand not necessarily for good. The first users who have received this update are showing publications consisting of ‘Memes’, short videos and personal publications, a type of content very different from the list of news that showed so far.
The effect of this change in the media can be catastrophic, but the new Google does not seem worried about that. Recall that another of the most controversial novelties launched this year is the search with Ia on Google, which replaces links to web pages with an explanation generated by Gemini.
