Google’s Preferred Sources Tool Is Jammed With Spam

Google’s Preferred Sources tool is meant to let fans of certain websites tell Google they want to see more of their favorite sites in the Top News feature. However, Google is surfacing copycat spam sites, random sites, and parked domains. Some of the sites appearing in the tool are so low quality that only their home pages are indexed. Shouldn’t this tool just show legitimate websites and not spam?

Google Preferred Sources

Google’s Preferred Sources feature gives users control over which news outlets appear more often in Google’s Top Stories…