Google expands Preferred Sources feature to AI Overviews and AI Mode searches
By
Lance Whitney
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
Google has expanded its Preferred Sources feature to support AI Overviews and AI Mode, allowing users to prioritize specific news sites in AI-powered search results. The feature, which previously only worked with regular Google searches, now lets users add preferred sources that will appear more prominently in AI-generated search summaries. This gives users more control over which sources Google's AI prioritizes when answering queries.
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Now, Google has expanded the feature to also cover AI-powered searches.
Google announced that the Preferred Sources feature now supports searches
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