# Interests

You can add interests to your Google Developer Program profile to tailor the content you want
to see and further personalize your developer experience.

You can search for and select interests related to programming languages,
products, and categories. This includes content from high-level interests such
as Google Cloud or Android to more granular interests such as Video Intelligence
API or Maps SDK for Android.

You also receive recommendations for interests to add to your profile based on
your browsing activity and your previously saved interests. These
recommendations can provide you with new avenues for discovery and exploration.

## Save interests to your profile

To save interests to your Google Developer Program profile, do the following:

1. [Join the Google Developer Program](https://developers.google.com/profile/u/me) if you haven't joined.

   You have the option to select interests as part of your profile creation.
2. Visit the [**Settings**](https://developers.google.com/profile/u/me/settings) tab on your Google Developer Program profile page.

3. Click the [**Interests**](https://developers.google.com/profile/u/me/settings#interests) tab.

4. Select one or more interest chips and click **Save**.

   Your selections are saved to your profile, and the interest chips turn blue.

   If you are saving interests for the first time, the
   [suggested interests](https://developers.google.com/profile/help/interests#suggested-interests) section appears at the bottom of
   the page.

## Remove interests from your profile

To remove interests from your Google Developer Program profile, do the following:

1. Visit the [**Settings**](https://developers.google.com/profile/u/me/settings) tab on your Google Developer Program profile page.
2. Click the [**Interests**](https://developers.google.com/profile/u/me/settings#interests) tab.
3. Select one or more interest chips that you want to remove and click
   **Save**.

   Your selections are removed from your profile, and the interest chips turn
   white.

   If you are removing the only selected interest, the
   [suggested interests](https://developers.google.com/profile/help/interests#suggested-interests) section is also removed.

## Searchable interests

If you don't see what you're looking for in the list of interests displayed,
use the search field to look for content related to a particular product or area
of interest. Make your selection from the results of your search and save to
your profile.

The following example shows the results for a search for Firebase content.
*(Click the image to enlarge.)*

![Firebase search](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/firebase-search.png)

![](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/firebase-search.png)

## Inferred interests

Inferred interests are recommended according to your browsing behavior and other
activities such as recent page visits, [pages you save](https://developers.google.com/profile/help/faq#how_do_bookmarks_collections_and_saved_pages_work), and pages
you rate using the thumb up or thumb down icon. Inferred interests change over
time as your user activity changes.

Inferred interests appear in the **Based on your activity** section as blue
chips with drop-down menus that you can use to confirm or reject the recommended
interest. This feature is automatically enabled when you join the Google Developer Program.

The following image shows inferred interests such as **Firebase** , **Cloud** ,
and **YAML** . *(Click the image to enlarge.)*

![Inferred interests](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/inferred-image.png)

![](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/inferred-image.png)

### Confirm an inferred interest

To confirm an inferred interest, do the following:

1. Click the drop-down arrow on an inferred interest chip.

   ![Confirm interest](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/confirm-interest.png)
2. Click **Yes, confirm**.

   The inferred interest is automatically added to your list of saved
   interests. *(Click the image to enlarge.)*

   ![Added interest](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/added-interest.png)

   ![](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/added-interest.png)

### Remove an inferred interest

To remove an inferred interest, do the following:

1. Click the drop-down arrow on an inferred interest chip.

2. Click **No, remove**.

   The inferred interest chip is automatically removed and doesn't appear again
   for six months regardless of your browsing activity.

## Suggested interests

After you save interests to your profile, suggested interests populate in the
**Suggested based on your interests** section at the bottom of the page. You can
select from this list to add these interests to your profile or dismiss them to
see new suggestions.

The following example shows a profile with **AI \& Machine Learning** and
**Python** interests saved. You can see the list of suggested interests
that populate such as **Cloud Vision** and **AutoML Tables** .
*(Click the image to enlarge.)*

![Suggested interests](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/suggestions.png)

![](https://developers.google.com/static/profile/images/suggestions.png)