Thoughts on this new Google.com feature?

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Chrome for Android and iOS has been showing you article suggestions as part of its Discover feed on the new tab page for ages, and now, desktop Chrome is in for a similar treatment. As discovered by 9to5Google, Google has started rolling out various kinds of cards that help you continue browsing for recipes and products. Luckily, you can easily deactivate these cards if you don't see value in them.



Google describes the cards as useful tools that help "pick up where you left off." So far, we've spotted four kinds of these collections: One to "continue your search" populated with shopping results, another with recipe ideas, one for your carts, and a section comprised of recently edited items from your Google Drive. 9to5Google additionally found another entertainment card that shows you "top picks for you," like TV shows you might have recently searched for.



I personally hate it from a consumer view, as I like a clean page, but see why they're doing it. I'll disable it if and when possible. For SEO/PPC though, this could be something else to play with...

Source: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/...of-those-suggestions-on-chromes-new-tab-page/
 
Just sounds like another way for google to steal traffic imo. Enabled by default I'm sure. I also don't like a cluttered page, and more crap to load.
 
Thanks god they atleast have an option to hide it

Plus very rarely use Chrome
 
Now, they can show up stuff even without a search query.
 
Time To Switch Edge browser or brave browser instead of using chrome browser
 
It seems like a new way for google to show its ads, it can be good for the UX if it works as described as well,
it doesn't really bother :D
 
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