May 13, 2007

Google Gadgets in Your Search Results

Google Subscribed Links are a way to build your own OneBox results, by defining direct answers for a list of queries. For example, you could check the status of a flight or find a book if you know the ISBN by entering a simple query.


Now the subscribed links can have a richer interface by including Google gadgets. You can't add inline gadgets or built-in gadgets like the preview of Gmail's inbox, but the good news is that your gadget can access the query and display something relevant.

A good example of gadget that's now included in a subscribed link is Google Translate. After subscribing to the gadget, you can translate some text directly from Google's search box. A query like [translate "I love you" to German] will trigger a direct answer.


This could be used to show search results from other search engines, the latest posts from a blog, solve complicated equations, show relevant photos from your Flickr albums and more.
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2 comments:

  1. TOMHTMLMay 13, 2007 at 1:37 PM

    German: Could not retrieve translation. Google Translate service may be unavailable due to high traffic. Please try again later.

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  2. Alex ChituMay 13, 2007 at 4:27 PM

    Yeah, the gadget uses screen scraping, so Google might block it if you use it too often.

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