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Google’s New Related Content Box

Google is testing a new box that displays related content, like searches, news and web pages. Basically, you get a box that, like Chitika ads, shows tabs, and you can switch between the tabs for different content. The “Searches” tab has a few Google searches related to the page content, the “News” tab has related stories, and the web pages tab has related sites.

You can see it in action on this page.

Since WordPress doesn’t let me run JavaScript in posts, I have no idea if this works on other websites. However, since there is no id number in it, its worth a shot. Somebody let me know if they have any luck:

< script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" >
< !–
google_rc = new Object();
google_rc['width'] = 468;
google_rc['height'] = 60;
google_rc['modules'] = ['news','searches','pages'];
google_rc['color_line'] = '336699';
google_rc['color_link'] = '0000ee';
google_rc['color_bg'] = 'ffffff';
google_rc['color_text'] = '000000';
google_rc['color_source'] = '6f6f6f';
google_rc['color_header'] = 'c6ddf4';
google_rc['color_footer'] = 'eeeeee';
//– >
< /script >
< script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src ="http://www.googlesyndication.com/relcontent/show_rc.js" > < /script >

Anyway, it seems interesting, and a competitor to Yahoo’s Y!Q, except I’m not sure where the money is. Hopefully, Google will release an AdSense enabled version of it, or a Froogle version like Chitika’s.

Sources:
Garrett Rogers
Barry Schwartz

March 10th, 2006 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | AdSense, Search, Advertising, General | 7 comments