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Earlier in August 2025, Google announced a new change to its search engine that would help determine how you will see certain sites when you look for things via “preferred sources.” While the initiative is only limited to certain regions now, with the US being one of them, it is possible to start filtering and organizing your search results. That said, we’d really appreciate it if you enjoy and love Siliconera enough to consider making us of your Google preferred source sites when searching so we’ll show up more often or on the first page.
Setting Siliconera, or really any site you enjoy reading and would prefer to see come up in Google search results as a preferred source ahead of things like retail stores or Reddit, is as easy as clicking a specific link. While the Google announcement featured steps you can follow to add it via search, I’ve found the best way is to go into Google preferences. This would be google.com/preferences/source when you are logged in to your account. You can then search for a specific site, then opt to tick a box to make it more likely to show up.
Here’s a full series of screenshots I took showing how this process works.
That same page is also helpful for organizing which sites would take priority too. After adding one, it will show up in the list of “Your Sources.” When a site like Siliconera is there, you can click the box next to its name to untick it and remove it from your Google preferred sources options when searching. That means it won’t show up as frequently, compared to ones you did select.
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