14 DAY TRIAL // A Google a Day is an interesting way of getting users to learn more about searching, on Google, while playing. The trivia game has users solving puzzles by searching the web and it's proven rather popular. The game's housed at a dedicated site and the daily questions are published in the New York Times above the crosswords puzzle.
Now, Google is expanding the game quite a lot by adding some social elements to it, how else.
Well, Google's been doing this to all of its products for the last year or so, but it's not just slapping a Google+ share box on aGoogleaDay.com and calling it a day, it's created a brand new version of the game on Google+.
"Over the past year, you may have seen some questions written by our celebrity guest authors (Jane Goodall, Taylor Swift, and Vanessa Carlton, to name a few) and learned a search trick or two along the way," Google boasts.
"We’re introducing a new and improved version of A Google a Day on Google+ that makes the trivia more collaborative and fun," it announced.
The new Google+ app retains the original feel of the game, the essence, but is rather different. For one, there's more than one per day, in fact, you can play as many times as you want. There are several categories of questions to choose from, literature, history, science, and you'll score points for any right answer.
You can compete with friends and strangers to climb to the top of the leaderboards. It's a rather fun trivia game and a huge step up from the previous version. The game is a lot more engaging as well, so if you like brain teasers, you may be spending quite some time with the new A Google A Day, which probably no longer warrants its name since there are more than one questions.