Google brings personal discover feed to the desktop

Google extends the discover feed of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets onto the desktop. In the future, article recommendations will end on Google.com.

As part of the Search Central Live Events event in Madrid, Google announced that they will bring the personalized news feed discover to the Google.com start page of the desktop. Above all, users of Android smartphones are likely to be familiar with the function that is at home on the left home screen as standard. Discover has also been found in the mobile Chrome browser for years.

Google Discover on other surfaces

As, among other things, Search-Engine-Roundtable reports, the discover feed will be shown in a new search window below the search. As with Android smartphones, it should not only consist of article recommendations, but also show the current weather and other customizable information such as sports results, stock exchange information and your own calendar.

As with the mobile versions, it is necessary that users register with their Google account. The personally customizable content and recommendations are thus synchronized and displayed across devices.

Google has been testing discover for the desktop for years

Google has been experimenting with a desktop version of the customizable discover feed at least since 2023, as the company confirmed. However, at that time it was only an experiment in India.

The company has not yet communicated when Google will start with the large -scale release announced for all Chrome users. It only means that discover should be provided gradually and users can activate the function as soon as it is available on your device. In the USA, the first users can already access the new function.

The discover function on the desktop should ensure a certain traffic for individual articles and publishers. However, this is probably not in relation to Google’s new AI search, according to the first reports of the websites massively contested the traffic might.