Over the past 2 days Google has launched two new search and content products. Somewhat under the radar, these two new products have the potential to be quite powerful in driving traffic for the Silicon Valley tech firm. Known for their excellence in product development, Google had announced the launch of real-time search integration as well as a new project called Living Stories. We have some brief background and video clips on both of the new products below.
Real-Time Search
Yesterday, the search giant released its long anticipated integration of real-time search into its results page. As we reported earlier, real-time search is a new initiative at Google to integrate real-time streams from sources like Twitter and Facebook into your search results. As you can see in the video clip below, the real-time results feed streams content relevant to your search query in a new window on your search results page.
One of the other very cool features of the new real-time search feature is that it works on both Android and iPhone mobile devices.
Living Stories
The other new product announced earlier today is called Living Stories. The general idea behind the Living Stories project is to give users a better way of following stories of interest. By presenting news coverage on a story from many different sources and formats in an easy to use interface, Google hopes to change the way we follow the news online. Check out the brief demo video clip of Google’s new Living Stories in partnership with The News York Times and The Washington Post below:
Over the next few months, Google will be working on refining the Living Stories project and is looking for you input. Stay current on their official blog here.
Both these products are not only extremely useful and compelling, but should also drive substantial traffic through Google’s search portal. Another few data points of Google’s continued leadership in search.
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