And then in Chrome, there used to be a 'Following' feed versus the standard Discover feed. I believe that is what they are saying is gone. You can still follow sites in Discover via the 'Follow' button. A bit of a confusing announcement from Google so I thought I would help try and clear that up. :)

Broadly, our third-party collaborations take three forms:
*Independent evaluations of key frontier capability and risk areas
*Methodology reviews that assess how we evaluate and interpret risk
*Subject-matter expert (SME) probing, where experts evaluate the model directly on real world SME tasks

More: "The artificial intelligence startup has partnered with PayPal ahead of the launch, and users will eventually be able to directly purchase items from more than 5,000 merchants through Perplexity’s search engine."

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/p...

Here are a few quotes but go read the article:

And more, Gemini 3 is available in AI Mode starting today (the first time Google has brought a Gemini model to Search on day one.) blog.google/products/sea...

More about Gemini 3 from The Verge, including an upgraded version of Google's 'query fan-out' technique -> "Gemini 3 Pro is “natively multimodal,” meaning it can process text, images, and audio all at once, rather than handling them separately. E.g. Google..." www.theverge.com/news/822977/...

"Gemini Agent is an experimental feature that handles multi-step tasks directly inside Gemini. It connects to your Google apps to manage your Calendar, add reminders, or just simply ask it to “organize my inbox" and it prioritizes to-dos and drafts replies for your approval. You can also give..."

But... good example of spam ranking in the SERPs...