Google's Timeline search: Just add timeline

Google's Timeline feature, a favorite for those of us who like to do real research, can now be accessed by typing the [Timeline] after the terms you are searching for. This works for both historical figures, and with topics that have a significant web history behind them.

So, for example, if a person enters [Apple Computer Timeline] they would get.


One would need to search to the bottom of the page to find:



Then by clicking on the "More timeline results"



For a topic that does not have a significant web history, no Timeline feature is offered.
For example, it no longer works if a person types ["Starbucks Via"] as this new product does not enough history behind it. Take a look at the bottom of the page.



It seems that Google is trying to make the search more intuitive. In that sense, I guess it is reasonable to only show the timeline search when a person requests it directly with a key word.