**Editorial Brief**
Google’s “Preferred Sources” feature is a free pass for more garbage in search. By framing it as a way to bring quality journalism into search, Google shifts responsibility to users and regulators who will likely ignore the manual setting almost no one will use. This approach allows Google to maintain its AI interfaces while sidelining the open web.
**Takeaways**
– Preferred Sources feature is seen as a mechanism for improving search quality but actually encourages more unfiltered content.
– Users are given little control over their search results, leading to potential exposure to lower-quality sources.
– The feature highlights Google’s continued reliance on manual oversight rather than automated systems that could better filter out low-quality content.
Originally published at the-decoder.com. Curated by AI Maestro.
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