In May Google said that it's going to put ads in lots of more places. Now Google has started showing ads in Google Discover. The worst part is that they have added a whole new card specially for Ads!
We’re expanding Discover, the news feed app we launched at Google for India last year, with Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam. Oriya, Urdu and Punjabi will follow soon.
TikTok has been or is in the process of being banned in some countries. This has resulted in new or existing services trying to replicate its success, while Google Discover is now directly highlighting “Short videos.”
Starting on Android 12, Google is rolling out the next big redesign of Discover. This visual revamp of the feed was first introduced on iOS and is now coming to Android.
Without descriptions, all you get now is the cover image, headline, and publication name/logo. This provides much less context before opening an article.