Google assessments including a Uncover Feed to its worthwhile desktop homepage

Google is experimenting with the inclusion of a Uncover Feed on its desktop homepage that reveals really helpful content material alongside the corporate’s conventional search field. A screenshot from MSPowerUser, which noticed the change, reveals a feed that features information headlines, a climate forecast, sports activities scores, and inventory info for a trio of firms. The search big beforehand added the Uncover Feed to its US homepage on cellular units in 2018,

Google spokesperson Lara Levin confirmed the change in a press release given to The Verge, noting that it’s an experiment that’s presently being run in India. Any change to google.com is important because it continues to be the world’s most visited web site.

The search big has experimented with its desktop homepage earlier than. Final yr 9to5Google noticed it testing a row of widget-like playing cards on its desktop homepage exhibiting an identical combine of reports tales, climate forecasts, and inventory info. Nevertheless, it’s unclear how extensively the characteristic was rolled out, and it’s not showing for me within the UK as of this writing.

As MSPowerUser factors out, Google’s experimental interface appears much like what Microsoft gives on its search engine Bing, which already accommodates an extended record of reports tales and different info. I’ll all the time have a keenness for the simplicity of Google’s conventional interface, however I’ve to confess I now barely go to the search engine’s homepage after over a decade of having the ability to search immediately from my browser’s deal with bar. 

Replace October thirteenth, 6:30AM ET: Added attribution to Google assertion.