New Google Free Tool Helps You to Find the Related Web Content

Google has added a new (browser extension) free tool that lets you find related web content when you browse to select pages. The recommended links appear in a thin bar at the bottom of your browser.

New Google Tool

Google has added a few extensions over the last several months that expands browser's online toolkit. These have ranged from a tool designed to help Google make charitable contributions to a personal search engine results page blocklist that later contributed to Google's fine-tuning of Panda.
This tool is designed to be simple, providing only a thin bar of content at the bottom of your screen. While there's some internal promotion (links to YouTube are common, for example), Google gives links to competitors as well.



This links show the recent news stories of Amanda Palmer, links me to her Wiki and Twitter pages, shows me the websites of her other music projects, and displays the most popular images of Palmer herself. It seems like a good way to find information you may not have otherwise stumbled upon.

Personalization and Site-Owner Applicability

Google personalizes the results of the Related bar by paying attention to user behaviors. While it's not likely that this will make a substantial impact on Google's algorithms overall, it may become another minor metric, especially for personalized Google results. Presumably, the impact of Related will be similar to that of the Google Toolbar.