Google announced new personalization features across Search, Discover, and Google News, including an embeddable Preferred Sources button for publishers, natural language Discover tuning, and customized audio briefings on Android.
Aug 20, 2026
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- Released an interactive Preferred Sources button that publishers can embed on their websites to let readers save them on Google.
- Integrated Preferred Sources across Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.
- Enabled natural language feed customization in the Google app allowing users to specify topics and links they want to see more or less of.
- Added customizable daily audio briefings with topic selection and source attribution in the Google News app on Android.
- Reported that users have already selected more than 600,000 unique sources as Preferred Sources.