Google’s AJAX Search team has just released their AJAX News Bar application. The application (widget) allows you easily add highly customizable real time news to your web pages or blog. It also added support for their ever popular book search feature too.

The provided wizard steps you through the orientation, the type of search news you want and the title. After that, it is as easy as just cutting and pasting the generated code to your site. However, if you want further customization, you may have to do some code tweaks according to their programming guide. Customizable features include the number of dynamic news lists, the size of the widget and the number of display results.

Once again, Google continues to impress and it didn’t take much considering I am a big AJAX fan. This is helpful for those who don’t want to constantly maintain sites and/ or offer dynamic news to parts of their site. While you are there, check out the community samples, a lists of application built by independent developers using the Google AJAX Search API. There is a little API for everyone.

Site [Google News Bar]
Site [Google AJAX Community Samples]