San Francisco, January 10(IANS): Google has started rolling out a new feature called activity cards tomake it easier for users to pick up the threads to past searches and continueexploring a topic.
"Activity cards will rollout today on mobile web and the Google app in English in the US," AndrewMoore, Google's Product Manager for Search wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.
So when you revisit a queryrelated to a task you had started in the past, Google will show you a card withrelevant pages you had already visited and previous queries you had done onthis topic.
"As you're looking tobuild new habits or pick up new tasks in the new year - whether sticking to anexercise regimen, sprucing up your winter wardrobe, or collecting new ideas foryour home - we hope this new feature helps you along your way and makes yoursearch history more accessible and useful," Moore said.
"If you're logged intoyour Google account and search for topics and hobbies like cooking, interiordesign, fashion, skincare and beauty, fitness, photography and more, you mayfind an activity card at the top of the results page that provides easy ways tocontinue your exploration," Moore added.
Users will also be able to addor delete items to their activity cards.
If you want to mark a page toread or reference later, just touch and hold the link to quickly add items onyour activity card to a collection.
You can access yourcollections by tapping the menu on the top left of the Search page (on mobileweb), or through the bottom bar of the Google app.
Users will be able to controlwhat appears in their activity card by pressing to delete an item or turn offcards by tapping the three-dot icon, Google said.
Moore did not reveal if thefeature would be rolled out globally any time soon.
