Google Discover Is Increasingly Showing Old News and Content for Some Users

Something appears to have recently changed with Google Discover as more than a few users are increasingly being served old news and more evergreen articles.

Over the past week or so, Google Discover users have been complaining about getting served news that is days old. For some, the entire feed is populated this way with no content that’s been published in the past few hours appearing. Refreshing the feed from the Google app does not load newer stories. Others are still getting up-to-date articles but have also noticed an uptick in older content.

The change could just be Google experimenting, though rather widely, with what appears in Discover. It’s not clear whether this is part of a broader mandate shift for the feed.