Google makes major mobile change

If you're on a mobile device and you head over to Google dot com, starting today you'll see something new. Where before now you'd have seen a search bar and a couple other tiny buttons, now you'll see a feed. This is known as Google's Discover feed. This is similar to the system we've seen evolving on Android home screens for a few years – but the idea that it's here, on the web... that's something new.

Google is continually moving forward, further and further downward, into the abyss. The abyss of all-knowing personal preferences and knowledge on your person. Whatever you do with a Google product, Google will turn into information that'll be used to serve your preferences for purchase.

That's a little different from service. Google isn't turning your actions and searches and such into a service that serves only the individual user. I believe this system does something not quite equivalent to service – it's more like Google is pulling down the walls between you and your tendency to seek out the same media over and over again.

This same feed can be found in the Google app – the main Google app, otherwise known as the Google search app. Users can find this page at Google dot com in their browser on an Android phone or tablet, or on their iPhone or iPad in the Chrome web browser. Pixel, Nexus, and Google Play edition devices (if you somehow still have one?!) can find this feed by swiping right on their device's Home screen.

If you're in a web browser, just tap the three horizontal lines button – that's the Menu button. Then tap Settings, Discover, and "Don't show on homepage." If you're in the Google app, hit the Menu button, then Settings, Discover, and turn off Discover.