Google Chrome Could Be Getting ‘Morning Read’ Magazine-like Features

If there is one thing refreshing about Google is that its main page is clean and uncluttered and where you only have a search bar. This is versus search engines from back in the day like Yahoo and Lycos where they acted as web portals, and where they tried to load as much information on the front page as possible, like news, sports, the weather, stock information, and etc.

However it seems that it is possible that Chrome could soon be getting a similar feature. According to recent discoveries in the Chromium Bug Tracker, there have been references made to “zine” and “morning reads”, with the former referring to “magazines”. While it is still unclear as to what this could mean, it has been speculated that it could mean that when the Chrome browser is launched in the morning, it would give users a bunch of news articles that it thinks that they might be interested in.

The listing also mentioned some improvements that could be made to the feature, like how news will only be fetched at certain times of the day so as not to be a data hog or to prevent itself from being too spammy. It has also been suggested that Chrome could coalesce with other wake-up events, like an alarm perhaps.

No word on whether Google will actually make this a feature available to the public, and since companies like Google tend to test features every so often, it’s hard to say if this is just an experimental feature or a possible future build of Chrome.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Computers, Web
Tags: Chrome, Google