Google has taken the wraps off two new experimental features that promise to be another success for the Web search giant.  

 

One of the new products is called similar images. The feature basically uses a picture to find similar pictures, just like the text search, but with images instead of text. 

 

The second new product from Google is much more fun than the first one. It is called News Timeline and it offers content and information already available on Google News, but it is organized and displayed chronologically. The News Timeline enables users to browse history through the search engine’s eyes by using a sliding chronological framework that combines data from newspapers, Wikipedia and several other sources. 

 

But that’s not all. The fears and rumors that Google might end its innovative run due to the struggling economy were wiped away by the Web search behemoth. Google also launched a revamped Google Labs site which lets the public now on what are the Google innovators are working on. 

 

Google’s director of product management, R.J. Pittman, said that Google aims to let more people try its experiments in order to "engage the user as soon as possible and get the products calibrated for success." This way, Google would gather feedback much easier and quicker and use it to adjust the course of its projects. The new Google Labs Web site which is built on Google App Engine and unifies various other labs work enables users to view, rate and comment the projects.