Google’s new search feature that shows you different perspectives (preferably, human) on search results will be available on Friday, the company said on Twitter. Views appear in a tab called, well, “Views.”
“Tap the filter, and you’ll find only long- and short-form videos, images and written posts that people are sharing on discussion boards, Q&A sites and platforms on social media,” Google wrote in a blog post about the feature from May . Based on a video in Google’s blog post, that includes things like TikTok videos, YouTube videos, websites, tweets, Quora results, and Reddit posts. My colleague David Pierce describes the Perspectives results as something that looks “more like Pinterest than a typical set of Google results,” and based on what I’ve seen, that seems to be about the right attitude.
With the Perspectives feed, which first started as a carousel you could see for some search results, it felt like Google was trying to prevent you from adding “reddit” to the end of every search to find information. from actual people. That trick is less useful due to Reddit communities going dark in protest of Reddit’s planned API changes, and many subreddits are now open again and can actually be found if you click on them from search. .
Given the ongoing conflict between the subreddit’s moderators and Reddit, I wonder if Google sees an opportunity to intrude on some of Reddit’s turf with its Views feed. But the timing can be a coincidence; when Google announced the new Insights tab during Google I/O in May, it said the feature would be released “in the coming weeks.” Here we are, many weeks have passed.
I haven’t seen the Perspectives tab in any of my recent searches, but I believe that will change soon.
