A Note from Us: Add Arabic for Nerds as a Preferred Source on Google

If you read Arabic for Nerds regularly and use Google, there is now a small setting that can help you see more of our articles when they match what you are searching for.

Google has introduced a feature called Preferred Sources. It lets you tell Google which sites you would like to see more often in the Top Stories area and related news results.

For a niche site like Arabic for Nerds, this matters. We publish articles about Arabic, language, culture, media, history, politics and the occasional nerdy deep dive. These are not always the loudest topics on the internet. If you want this kind of material to appear more often in your own Google results, adding us as a Preferred Source helps Google understand that.

1. After clicking the button, Google should show Arabic for Nerds in the source preferences tool.
2. Select it, confirm your choice, and you are done.

You need to be signed in to Google for this setting to be saved. That can be the account you use for Gmail, YouTube, Android, Google Maps or the Play Store. It does not have to be a Gmail address.

What does this change?

It does not subscribe you to emails. It does not cost anything. It does not mean you will only see Arabic for Nerds. It simply tells Google that, when our articles are relevant to your search, you would like to see them more often.

The setting applies to your own Google account. You can change it again later in Google’s Preferred Sources settings.

Why we are asking

Independent websites have become harder to sustain. AI summaries, scraped content and zero-click search results often use or summarize the work of publishers without sending readers back to the original source. For small, independent sites, that matters.

Arabic for Nerds is not a large platform. We publish specific, researched and sometimes very niche material about Arabic, language, culture, media, history, politics and the details that often disappear in faster formats.

That is why a quick click can help. If you add Arabic for Nerds as a Preferred Source, you are telling Google directly: this is one of the sites I actually want to see.

No Google account?

No problem. Preferred Sources is a Google setting, so it works best when you are signed in to Google. If you do not use Google or do not want to sign in, there are still simple ways to support independent sites: visit Arabic for Nerds directly, bookmark the site, subscribe if you want full access, or share articles you found useful.

What about Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave or Kagi?

Google’s Preferred Sources feature is currently the only one we know of that offers this specific kind of direct source preference for search results. Other services have related options, but they work differently: Microsoft personalizes some news feeds, DuckDuckGo offers !Bangs for searching directly on specific sites, Brave lets users customize Brave News and RSS sources, and Kagi lets users raise or pin preferred domains.

These are useful options, but they are not the same as Google’s Preferred Sources feature. The simplest thing still helps everywhere: come to Arabic for Nerds directly, bookmark the site, and share the articles you find useful.

Thank you for reading Arabic for Nerds directly, sharing our articles, subscribing, and adding us as a Preferred Source if you use Google.