Through the decades of Google Search research, new and practical features have been constantly implemented to provide more immediate information and links to common search types. Today, the tech giant treats podcasts the same way.
Announced today on the Google blog, users searching for a podcast via Google will notice that an additional portion appears in their regular search results, displaying a carousel of individual podcast episodes available online.
The feature is effective when you use search phrases such as "space podcasts" or "crime podcasts." Google says that "soon you will no longer need the term" podcast "in your search to watch episodes."
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If you're wondering how Google manages to find these episodes, even if the title isn't necessarily part of the search terms, it's because the results are "based on Google's understanding of what we're talking about."
As reported by Android police earlier this year, the company had started transcribing the podcasts found on its native Google Podcasts service, in the hope that the metadata would be useful for search results. Today, we will probably see the results.
You cannot currently listen to the podcast directly from the search results. You will click on the Google Podcast web app instead, but support for third-party apps and websites that may have exclusive rights to a podcast will be supported later. , greatly increasing the possible search results.
The blog post also claims that the tech giant will bring the same features to the Google Assistant later in the year, as well as dedicated podcasts from Google for the Web, from which you'll also be able to directly listen to the Investigation Episode. result.
English-language users in the United States are the first to benefit from this feature, but if you don't see it in search results yet, you can rest assured that it will accompany you as soon as the global deployment process is complete. in progress.