Get Your Fix of What’s Happening at Google in One Place

Are you obsessed with everything Google? Do you stalk the pages of Mashable just to be first on the latest Gmail update? Then you’re going to love Google New.

Google New is a simple dashboard for finding out exactly what is new and hip at the Googleplex. It’s essentially a dashboard of news from Google’s 100+ blogs coupled with the ability to search through Google’s key products and eight different areas of interest.

Frankly, there’s not much more to Google New than that, but it definitely makes it easier to follow all of the changes Google is making. It’s tough even for us to keep up with the changes going on at the tech giant. From our experience, Google launches a new update or a new product nearly every day.

Google New is one of the company’s 20% project ideas, where engineers spend 20% of their work time on any project they want. We doubt it took them that long to build this, but we’re glad they did; we’ll certainly be using it to keep track of the company.

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Google New: It’s Google News About New Google Stuff In One Place

In terms of blog networks, no one ever seems to talk about Google, but they actually have one of the biggest. The search giant has well over 100 blogs devoted to everything from general company news to niche things that only webmasters will care about. And with over 100 different blogs pumping out a wide variety of content, it can be hard to keep up with all the Google news. That’s why Google has created Google New.

Google New, not to be confused with Google News, their news aggregation property (which turned 8 today, coincidentally), is a landing page that gives you a quick overview of the latest news from all the various Google blogs. The default view is to show snippets from the latest blog posts in reverse chronological order, but you can also tailor the experience to be just about things you actually care about. At the top of the page is a big area that allows Google to showcase something particularly newsworth — in this case, Google Instant.

In their blog post about Google New today, Google notes that this was a 20 percent project that a few Googlers worked on to better showcase what the company is doing as a whole. You can hear more of their perspective in the video below.

Given the rate of new products Google has been pumping out recently, I’m already wondering how long it will be until we need a New Google New.