One of the most useful functions offered by Google in Android smartphones is discovery. 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 interest.
For many people, Discover has become its main source of information; Google has indicated that the function always shows news that affects the user or can be interesting. In turn, Discover has become one of the main sources of media visits and a very precious way to obtain new readers. However, the last discovery update can end this.
How they discovered 9TO5GOOGLESome users find Social media publications at DiscoverReplace the usual publications. It is something striking because so far, Discover was the opposite of social networks, a place to obtain reliable news and selected by professionals; But from now on, it seems that we can also start to see user publications that talk about problems related to what interests us.
For the moment, Discover shows X Publications (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube shorts; For example, to show the content linked to a basketball team, Discover can show publications from the official team or videos recorded by fans and published on YouTube. For the moment, it seems that these two are the only social networks which are 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 on this novelty, so everything indicates that It has not yet been officially launched. A usual tactic on Google is to launch news only in a small amount of accounts and check the reaction of users before a global launch; Sometimes a new function has been withdrawn so as not to be well received.
If Google finally confirms that you put links to social networks to discover, you can Completely change the type of content offered by the applicationAnd not necessarily for good. The first users who received this update show publications made up of “memes”, short videos and personal publications, a very different type of content from the list of news that has shown so far.
The effect of this change in the media can be catastrophic, but the new Google does not seem worried about it. Remember that another of the most controversial news launched this year is research with IA on Google, which replaces links to web pages with an explanation generated by Gemini.
