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I can’t quit Google News — but these 5 things make me want to

Google News is great, but with these five features, it could be even better.

By June 14, 2026

Google News is easily one of the most popular news aggregators on the planet, with more than a billion Android downloads and over 100 million monthly visits to its web platform. With aggregated content from over 20,000 publishers, there’s a lot to love about Google News. Of course, there’s also plenty to complain about.

I personally use Google News as my go-to source, but I certainly wish a few things were handled a little differently. With that in mind, here are five features I think Google News desperately needs to add.

Is there any new feature you’d like to see come to Google News?

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Preferred sources

Last year, Google rolled out its Preferred Sources feature for Google Search, allowing users to select trusted websites. At the time, one of our own Android Authority team members believed this feature would make more sense for Discover or Google News. I agree completely.

Technically, your search preferences already follow across your account to some degree, but there’s very limited control over this. You might also argue that Google News already has something like this with the Following feature.

While this sort of works similarly, following a source simply adds it to the Following tab, and it has zero impact on the main feed. I’d love the ability to make my preferred sources the ones that are most common across not only the Google News main feed but all the sub-sections as well.

True blocklisting

Google makes it fairly easy to “hide all stories” from a source on paper; in reality, it’s very different. You’d think selecting this option would mean you’d never again see anything from this source, right? Not so much, as it turns out.

While it does make these sources show up in fewer places, you’ll still find hidden sources in the “Full Coverage” aggregated story cards and the top story carousels within the app. If you don’t want to see articles from a particular publisher, you shouldn’t be forced to do so just because Google’s algorithms are overly aggressive.

Topic-specific keyword blocking

While true blocklisting would be a massive upgrade to the current Google News experience, I’d also really like it if Google News took a page out of Feedly’s playbook by introducing its own topic-specific keyword filter. For those who don’t know, Feedly AI lets you mute company names, products, or keywords.

Even better, Feedly lets you set time frames to temporarily avoid certain topics. For example, maybe your favorite series is coming back for another season, but you won’t be able to watch until much later. Google is obviously no stranger to AI and already uses some AI features in Google News, so I feel like this would be a natural fit.

Read more: I can’t quit Google News, but these 5 things make me want to – Android Authority

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