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Google+ Sign-In: Bringing App Activities to Google Search
April 30, 2013
Cross-posted from
The Google+ Developers Blog
When users search for your app, they often want to go deeper and see what in-app content fellow users find interesting. Today we're making this possible by bringing app activity to Google search results.
Aggregate app activity for SoundCloud in Google Search.
Soon, if you search for a site or app on Google.com (and that app has integrated with Google+ Sign-In
app activities
), you'll see popular and aggregate user activity to the right of search results. Searching for Fandango, for example, will show the top movies among Google users. And when you click on a movie, you’ll go directly to its page on Fandango.
The current Google Search results page for Fandango (left) and the Google Search page results with app activities (right).
We're rolling out this feature in desktop Search over the next few weeks, starting with a limited number of music and movie apps — including
Deezer
,
Fandango
,
Flixster
,
Slacker Radio
,
Songza
,
SoundCloud
and
TuneIn
— but we'll be adding more apps over time.
We've got lots more improvements planned, so stay tuned for more updates.
Posted by
Seth Sternberg
, Director of Product Management, Google+
Making your mobile search faster
April 16, 2013
When you’re searching for information on the go, speed matters. If you want to check out Rotten Tomatoes for a new movie to go see with your friends, you might not want to navigate through the Rotten Tomatoes homepage to find the list of top movies while your friends are anxiously waiting. Now, there’s a faster way to get to the Rotten Tomatoes page with just the info you need most -- just look for a new quick link for “In Theaters” underneath the main Rotten Tomatoes link when you search on your mobile phone. You’ll see these expandable sitelinks appear for many sites to help you get to a specific section quickly.
Also starting today, on some searches you’ll see a blue “Quick view” badge next to a few results. Say you’re new to poker or need a quick refresh on hands -- just search for “poker hands”, and you can now click the blue badge and see a quick view of the Wikipedia page listing out the poker hands immediately.
Quick view is an experimental project and is currently enabled for pages from Wikipedia when you search in English on Google.com. We are working to expand this to additional websites.
(Webmasters can
subscribe to updates here
to learn about participating in the mobile quick view field trial.)
Posted by Hiroshi Mizuno and Alex Fischer, Software Engineers
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