New Blogger Template Widgets from Google – Newsreel and Video Bar

Google Ajax Search API Team introduced two very useful widgets for Blogger blogs, Newsreel and Video Bar.

The Newsreel searches Google News for your chosen keywords and displays an ever-updating list of their search results.

The Video Bar does the same for Google Video and YouTube searches, and even lets you play the videos without leaving your blog!.

You can check out Pete’s mobile blog for live examples of the Newsreel and Video Bar in action.

In order to use the new widgets, click your blog’s Layout link on your Dashboard, then click “Add a Page Element.” You’ll find the new widgets right at the top. As a bonus, the Newsreel will change from a list of summaries to a scrolling ticker depending on whether it’s in the sidebar or the main column, so drag them around and see what you like.

If you are not using the Layouts feature of the new Blogger, then you need to switch your classic template to Layouts.