Google to expand Discover to Google’s desktop homepage

Google will be bringing Google Discover, the news feed, to the desktop version of the Google.com home page. Google Discover is currently available on the mobile apps and mobile version of Google.com, it has been since 2018. And soon it will come to the desktop version of the Google home page.

More details. Clara Soteras on X and Gianluca Fiorelli on X posted the slides from a Googler announcing this at the Search Central Live event in Madrid this morning.

Here is one of those slides that says Google Discover is “expanding surfaces” to “desktop Search.”

Clara Soteras added, “Google Discover will be available for desktop! The Google team is working to expand Discover on more surfaces. They just showed it in #sclmadrid, a great new feature for News and that will change the real-time and content strategy of publishers.”

Been testing. Google has been testing Discover on the desktop version of the home page for years. I covered this in 2023 with this screenshot showing the feed on desktop:

A week or so ago, this was also spotted being tested in the wild by this X user who shared these screenshots:

Why we care. Discover can be a huge traffic driver to news publishers and right now, it is primarily only shown on mobile devices when accessing the Google mobile apps or Google’s mobile home page.

If it comes to Google’s desktop home page, that can about double the exposure of Google Discover traffic for publishers. This can be a very good thing for some, those at least who normally get a lot of traffic from Discover.