An example of the coolness of Dynamic Views in Blogger

In September 2011 Google introduced so-called Dynamic Views to their blogging platform, Blogger. A lot of people still think of the dynamic views as just another set of pretty templates. However, as Google wrote back then, they are much more:

"Dynamic Views is much more than just new templates. With just a couple clicks, you’ll get infinite scrolling (say goodbye to the “Older posts” link), images that load as you browse, integrated search, sorting by date, label and author, lightbox-style posts for easy viewing, keyboard shortcuts for quickly flipping through posts, and one-click sharing to Google+ and other social sites on every post".

In this post, I would like to show you what Google meant by "integrated search". Try for example, to type "drive" in the search field in the top right corner of your screen right now. You should see something like the following:

As you can see, two things are happening real time as you search: post which are relevant to your search term are highlighted and a drop down menu with snippets of relevant text are presented to you. If you click on the "show all..."-link, only the relevant posts are shown (a bug is causing the number of relevant posts to show up as 0. The link works regardless).

This works on mobile as well:

Obviously, this interactive search-feature - together with all the other improvement in usability mentioned in the quote above - has the potential to increase engagement on your blog quite a bit. So - if you are not already using Dynamic Views (or even Blogger), you might want to give it a spin.