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Google introduced a newly redesigned version of Google Labs today and a couple of new labs to go along with it. They rebuilt Google Labs from scratch with Google App Engine and moved it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fD2t4d2Ln4

For example, a search for “paris” might turn up results for the Eiffel Tower, a map of Paris France, and Paris Hilton. If you wanted to see more of Paris Hilton (assuming you didn't just search for Paris Hilton), you could simply click the picture of her and get more.

Google Similar Images - Parissimilar feature since late last year.

The second lab is similar to something that's already being integrated into a Google product. That is the reported last week that Google News was showing an article timeline in search results, and when you click on a story, it shows related stories in the order in which they were crawled.

The lab goes a bit further than the simple box included on the Google News site though. Google explains:

Google News Timeline organizes information chronologically by presenting results from Google News and other data sources on a zoomable, graphical timeline. You can navigate through time by dragging the timeline, setting the time scale to days, weeks, months, years, or decades, or just including a time period in your query (i.e., "1977"). To see this in action, check out the results viewed by month in the

jack nicholson movies], [ baseball news photos]. To read more, check out our post on the Google News TimelineRSS Feed as well as an cover this stuff

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