Google checks including a Uncover Feed to its priceless desktop homepage

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

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

The search large 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 the same combine of reports tales, climate forecasts, and inventory info. Nonetheless, 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 seems much like what Microsoft provides on its search engine Bing, which already comprises a protracted checklist of reports tales and different info. I’ll at all times have a passion 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 tackle bar.