.Google Indexing Content of 2 Million Podcasts, Lets Users Stream Directly From Search Pages
says it’s making it much easier to find — and listen to — podcasts. The internet giant is now surfacing podcast episodes in search results based on an analysis of the topics in a given show, and will let users play back the podcast right from the results page., its index now spans more than 2 million podcasts across the web. Now, when you search for a podcast about a topic on Google show you playable episodes in search results alongside web pages, news, images and videos.
Google won’t index the content of all 2 million-plus podcasts right off the bat. The new podcast search and streaming features are available initially for English in the U.S., and will expand over time. Eventually, Google search queries won’t even need to include the term “podcast” to return a list of relevant episodes.
Meanwhile, Google also announced that later this year, users will be able to find and listen to episodes on the Google Assistant and the Google Podcasts for web service . That will let users issue a voice command to the Google Assistant for podcasts about a certain topic, and it will suggest episodes for you related to your search. In Google Podcasts for web, you’ll be able to search for relevant shows and episodes and listen directly on your computer or phone.
“Our goal is to double worldwide podcast listening, to not just make it easy to listen to podcasts on Android but make podcasts a first-class citizen on Google,” Reneau-Wedeen said.
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