If you’re tired of a certain topic popping up on your feed, like perhaps “Donald Trump,” you can tell Google to stop showing stories about him in your feed. “Google search should be working for you in the background even when you’re not searching,” Ben Gomes, vice president of engineering for Google search, said during a news conference as reported in multiple news outlets. It combines the two functions as well, allowing you to click on certain topics to immediately perform a Google search for that item. Though the similarities are clear, Google employees were “adamant that this news feed is nothing like Facebook’s News Feed,” Wired reported. Unlike Facebook’s feed, though, the Google feed won’t be affected by what your friends on social media read, share or like.

Source: Washington Post July 19, 2017 09:24 UTC