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Introducing Google News Timeline
Monday, April 20, 2009
Posted by Andy Hertzfeld, Software Engineer
At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to organize information. Today, we're announcing
Google News Timeline
--a new feature on
Google Labs
that organizes many different types of search results on a zoomable, graphical timeline.
Google News Timeline presents search results from a wide range of sources. You can search and browse results from Google News, including headlines,
quotes
, photos from our Hosted News partners, and YouTube partner videos. You can also search for thousands of
archival newspapers
and
magazines
from Google News Archive Search and Google Book Search.
You can also add Blog Search results and sports scores, as well as information about books, music, movies, tv shows, video games, and even artists, to see how they've appeared over time. Try out some of our favorite queries like [
jack nicholson movies
], [
barack obama quotes
], or [
baseball news photos
].
To browse through time, you can specify a date in your search, drag the timeline of results, or set the time scale to days, weeks, months, years, or even decades. In this example, I searched for arcade video games that came out in the 1990s:
We hope you'll enjoy exploring the Google News Timeline, and stay posted for
more new features
on Google Labs.
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