Google Android Users May Emphasize Importance of News Recommendations
Google Android phones display news recommendations on the very left virtual screen (at least on my Pixel 5 phone). Until now, users only were able to remove entire news sources or topics, as shown below.
However, now, users seem also to be allowed choosing to see “more” or “less” news of a certain topic.
2021-08-18 Update: I just realized that this new feature is gone. It seems the “More” and “Less” choice was an A/B test that apparently wasn’t very successful.
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About The Author
Joeran Beel
I am the founder of Recommender-Systems.com and head of the Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) at the University of Siegen, Germany https://isg.beel.org. We conduct research in recommender-systems (RecSys), personalization and information retrieval (IR) as well as on automated machine learning (AutoML), meta-learning and algorithm selection. Domains we are particularly interested in include smart places, eHealth, manufacturing (industry 4.0), mobility, visual computing, and digital libraries. We founded or maintain, among others, LensKit-Auto, Darwin & Goliath, Mr. DLib, and Docear, each with thousand of users; we contributed to TensorFlow, JabRef and others; and we developed the first prototypes of automated recommender systems (AutoSurprise and Auto-CaseRec) and Federated Meta Learning (FMLearn Server and Client).