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Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search
Google launches Preferred Sources, a search setting that lets users manually prioritise news outlets, which critics say deflects regulatory pressure while continuing to favour AI-generated results over the open web.
Google frames "Preferred Sources" as a way to bring more quality journalism into search. In practice, it shifts responsibility to a manual setting almost no one will use. That gives Google a user-choice argument for users and regulators while it keeps sidelining the open web in favor of its own AI interfaces.
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