When we hear the word innovation, we're enervated
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Google goes real time
INTERNET SEARCH leader Google has ramped up its operation with some tools that it claims can produce up-to-the-second search results.
The move is part of a package of changes to improve the search engine. The company also added Google Goggles, an experimental image recognition system for Android 1.6+ devices by which users can submit search queries using pictures.
There is also a "What's Nearby?" location-based search capability in Google Maps, intended for mobile devices. Other additions include Japanese language support for the Iphone, Android voice search applications and a plan to provide in-conversation voice translation across languages, starting in the first quarter of 2010.
Google Goggles might one day allow people to point at an object and have it identified. This could be useful when you are trying to identify a politician, all of whom look alike and have the same policies.
Google has been busy lately. Recently it also announced a partnership to license data from the microbogging service Twitter.
The company smugly claims it has introduced 33 different search innovations in the past 67 days. µ
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This is a bold, timely move that is going to lead to a massive shake up in the entire search industry. Besides TipTop (http://feeltiptop.com) which offers a unique experience that Google would not be able to replicate easily (unless they acquire them), I do not quite see how any other real-time search engine is going to survive after this.