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******* is already a big player in live video. ******* is already a big player in gaming. As of today, ****** is promoting the intersection of the two with ******* Gaming, a dedicated site and separate app that's supposed to directly compete with Twitch's popular streaming platform. ******* Gaming is a more obviously gaming-focused version of the standard interface; the announcement post billed it as a place where "you can search with confidence, knowing that typing 'call' will show you Call of Duty and not 'Call Me Maybe.'"

In practice, the problem ******* Gaming needs to solve isn't separating video games from Carly Rae Jepsen (who has a small but respectable place in its search results, thanks to a Just Dance 4 track and some Minecraft parody songs.) It's separating the different kinds of gaming content that's easily available on *******. And in that, it succeeds — which might be all it needs to do.

While you're watching a stream, ******* Gaming looks more like a Netflix-style video service (or *******'s mobile app) than its vanilla counterpart does, though the components are similar: you can see comments on the side, give a streamer a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and subscribe to their work.

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