Google Discover jumps from the mobile to the computer

You may not know him by name, but unlikely you don’t use it. Google Discover is the feed of news that Google select for each user and shows in the browser Chromein its mobile version, on all phones Android sliding your finger from left to right from the home screen and In the Google app. Its accessibility makes them use every day hundreds of millions of peoplea figure that will increase soon when Google throw Discover In the Chrome desktop version. That is, it will also be accessible from computers with Windows, Mac and Linux.

Already in 2023, Google was testing Discover in computers with a group of users in India, something that then described as ‘experiment’ In statements to The Verge. Now we have a confirmation through the event Central Live Search that took place this Wednesday in Madrid. This is a conference aimed at websites owners, digital marketing specialists, web developers, media and SEO professionals organized by the team of Search from Google. Among the participants, people like John Muellerleader of the Relationship Team with the search engine, Moshe Sametproduct manager of the search engine console, and Nikola Todorovic, director of Engineering at Google.

It was during the intervention of Eric Barberaresponsible for products and google market, when a slide could be seen that revealed that Discover is ‘expanding its surface’ to desktop searches. Barbera, talking about discover changes to get ‘a more responsive and relevant experience’, showed how the feed will see on the screen of a computer, under the search box on Google.com.

One of the attendees pointed in X that ‘Google Discover will be available for desk! Google’s team is working to expand Discover to more platforms. They have just presented it in #SCLMadrid, an excellent new function for news that will revolutionize the content and real time strategy of the editors. Remember that, right now, Google Discover is the most important traffic channel for a media website‘.

There are also users who already have access to this new functionality in the United States. Apparently, Google gives the option to activate it or not, at the user’s choice.

What is not yet known is a date for the deployment of this new implementation of the Google feed. Discover was released 2018happening to Google Feedwhich in turn replaced Google Now. Google does not provide data on its user base since 2018, when he said he was in the 800 million per month. At this point they will be many more.