Google has recently updated its Web Stories feature, making significant changes to its availability and how it appears in search results. This blog post will delve into google latest updates and what they mean for users and content creators.

What are Web Stories?

Web Stories is a visual short content form designed for quick moments, like when you’re riding on a bus. They are graphic, have brief phrases, and are organized in a carousel style so that swiping opens the next "page" of content. Google describes them as snackable content and visual storytelling.

Web Stories immerse readers in fast-loading full-screen experiences, allowing content creators to easily create visual narratives with engaging animations and tappable interactions. The Web Story format, formerly known as AMP Stories, is free and part of the open web, available for everyone to try on their websites. Instead of being restricted to a closed ecosystem or platform, they can be shared and embedded throughout the web.

Changes to Web Stories Availability

Google Search, which encompasses Google Discover, offers Web Stories. They are no longer accessible through Google Images, where they were once found. According to Google’s Developer Pages changelog, the grid view is now a carousel view in Search results.

These modifications were reflected in the Web Stories developer page on Google's Search Central. The new header in the documentation highlights that Web Stories are a component of Google Search. This is the first update to the content. The fact that Web Stories is a Search Feature is emphasized in the second new heading.

The inclusion of a new paragraph to go with the title above is the biggest alteration. This new section states:

Google Search, which is accessible in all countries and languages, has the capacity to display Web Stories as a single result. In addition, Web Stories can be seen in a carousel on Google Search, which is accessible in English in the US, Hindi and English in India, and Brazilian Portuguese in Brazil. Web Stories can show up as a single card in the Discover flow that you can swipe through to read the story.

Conclusion

The way this content is displayed and made available changed drastically with the most recent updates to Google's Web Stories feature. While creators of content and marketers might have to make adjustments to these changes, they additionally offer new chances for interacting with people in fresh and interesting ways. It will be interesting to see how this format develops and what effect it has on the larger digital world as Google works to enhance and broaden its Web Stories feature.