Posted on 01/20/2026 5:43:13 AM PST by Twotone
Five simple steps are all it takes to reclaim control of your news feed.
Gone are the days when you type hot-button topics — say “latest on border security” or “ICE protests” — into Google and are forced to sift through the same list of mainstream left-wing propaganda while the sources you trust are intentionally buried.
In an act nothing short of miraculous, Google recently handed power back to the user with a new tool called the Preferred Sources feature. With a few clicks of a button, you can personalize your news-related search results so that your most pressing questions are met with the unfiltered answers you value.
Ready to make it happen? Here's how to flip the script on Google's algorithm, transforming it from gatekeeper to your personal servant in just five simple steps.
Step 1: Go to google.com and sign in using your Google account information. Note: You must have a Google account to use the Preferred Sources feature.
Step 2: Search a current news topic (e.g. Iran protests, Trump tariffs, border security updates). You will see articles from mainstream sources, like CNN, NPR, USA Today, AP, Reuters, etc.
Step 3: Directly to the right of the “Top Stories” header at the top of your Google search page, you will see an icon that looks like overlapping boxes with a star in the middle. Click or tap that icon to open the Preferred Sources pop-up.
Step 4: In the text box, type theblaze.com. When it appears in the results, check the box next to it and click “Reload results.”
Step 5: Refresh your Google page — you'll start seeing boosted results from Blaze News where relevant.
You can add as many sources as you want (no limit) and remove them any time by unchecking the boxes in the same menu.
Stick it to Big Tech and its echo chambers by utilizing Google’s Preferred Sources feature. The power to choose who you listen to has always been rightfully yours, but those who seek to shape and steer the narrative have kept it hidden behind algorithms designed to favor certain voices over others — until now.
Add your trusted sources today, and experience news that serves you.
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Fool’s solution, Google with create algorithms to manipulate those sections as well.
Only way to avoid the problem is to take the effort to find the information yourself.
Any all such offered solutions will come with their own biases and will be manipulated to distort you; you have to know the biases to avoid or manage the problem.
I go them one better and I’ve been doing it for a long time. I use the brave browser and for any topic that is even remotely political, I use Yandex instead of Google. The difference you get in results is remarkable. Give it a try sometime and you will immediately see what I mean and you’ll see just how skewed and biased Google’s search results are.
Exactly. I eschew all things Google when it is possible to do so.
“preferred sources”
Click bait. Pffft.
Yandex I couldn’t open but wiki says it’s russian
[Of course, TheBlaze uses themselves as an example]
Of course
(type theblaze.com)
😜😂🤣
How about NO?
I don’t trust Glenn Beck
If its not on FR I don’t trust it.
If it’s a BS story it gets quickly debunked around here. We seek the truth not affirmation.
I do think FR does better than most at sifting through the misinformation.
Every time you click on a link, Larry Page makes $.0001 (world wide). Break up the Internet monopolies.
What is this “Google” they speak of?
I have FR.
Google: Making money by being evil.
Is the option on google to do:
‘sometopicicareabout site:theblaze.com’
not sufficient?
Serious question ……
So what happens if I just use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
Maybe 8 years ago. I got rid of all mainstream news channels from Youtube. I cancled ABC NBC and CBS first. Then went MSNBC and CNN. I got rid of FOX for a while then I brought them back as youtube rarely chose them. But I needed something to see what others would see. Then I got rid of others like PBS and BBC. They tried to come back by having related channels but I shut those down as they popped up. I still allow Young Turks and some leftist channels. Just not the mainstream ones. I switched out the drudge report for Citizen Free Press. Drudge is clearly just CIA right now. Its not woke. Its swamp. And when the mainstream tried to show up in email or any suggested web-sites which they often did at first, I dismissed them quickly. You have to curate your news. Get trusted sources and be open to finding new ones. Some are only good for certain topics. And some stop being as diligent. I got rid of Ben Shapiro and his ilk. I am pro Israel but I am not only Israel. As someone who has been there I can tell you that 55% of Israel itself is not on Ben’s side. There are Neocons in Israel just like they are here. I have been to UAE and Israel and South East Asian and Taiwan and I can tell you Trump is pretty popular there. He is not popular in Western Europe.
DuckDuckGo has the popups you can choose. Curate them. Click on them and dismiss the ones you don’t like. The ones you use most will quickly pop up in their place. Also start using the duckduckgo AI. Its not perfect. But its good. And you can tell it what you don’t trust.
Further enhances the echo chamber effect that is polarizing our nation. Now you can curate your own preferred narrative of the world.
I was thinking something similar
Stopped reading there.
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