These are the new features coming to Google Search

Google is bringing preferred sources to AI Overviews and AI mode in search. It will also display a carousel of curated stories for developing topics.

Following the Google I/O 2026 developer event last week, new updates are coming to Google Search. For starters, Google announced that its Preferred Sources feature is now coming to AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search.

If you don't know, Preferred Sources lets you choose which outlets and sites you want to see more often in Top Stories for different topics. The feature was already available worldwide in all supported languages on Google Search.

Go to Search Settings > Source personalization under Content > Source preferences to start adding your preferred sources. Google said you can add any website that publishes fresh content. It found that people are twice as likely to click through a preferred source, and people have already selected 345,000 unique sources.

Moving on, if you're trying to catch the latest updates on a developing topic via AI responses in Google Search, you'll see a short text summary and a prominent carousel featuring highlights from your preferred sources. "We know people often want to read an article or a post for these searches, but some initial context and a range of options helps them decide where to dig in," Google said.

For some other topics, Google will display insights from various sources in a carousel, including different perspectives from online discussions, forums, and social media. In addition, Google will add a "Highly Cited" label to more web article links in search results. This can help users quickly find the original source of a news story that many other stories have cited.

That said, it was recently reported that the search giant is in a legal battle in the EU over market dominance. It could face massive fines of hundreds of millions of dollars if it fails to implement the suggested changes. Google is also cutting back on the virtually unlimited access it offered for Gemini. There is now a five-hour reset and a weekly cap.

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Posted Thursday 28 May 2026 at 7:56 am AEST (my time).

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