Google announces many technologies

On December 7, Google warmed the digital world by unveiling two cult technologies: image recognition, identity recognition and language conversion. The gossip about ' real-time search war ' has finally got the answer.

Google said in the next few days it will add search results from updating every second the content on sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace . This will be a significant change to the search engine that is in dominance.

As previous predictions about ' real-time search war ', users will see pieces of Twitter postings, blog posts, news and social network updates at search results. .

Previously, Google had updated every few minutes from social networks, blogs and selected to include in search results.

Vic Gundotra, president of Google's engineering division, demonstrated many new technologies at a press conference in Mountain View, California, on December 7.

' Clearly in today's world, so is not fast enough ,' said Amit Singhal, a member of Google's board of directors, speaking at a news conference at the Computer History Museum building. ' Information is being put up at a rate that we have never seen before, and in the current situation, every second is important .'

For example, a search with the keyword ' Copenhagen ' on Google, where the Global Climate Change Conference takes place, will produce search results as usual, but add a table with a scroll bar in the center of the page display news, press releases, news stories and tweets.

This table will update every few seconds. The result might be a tweet like @tomng in the Bay Area that says: 'The snow is falling in the North Sea. Please explain, Copenhagen . '

Google has established a formal partnership with Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to quickly bring up-to-date content from these services to the first page of search results.

Google and its partners do not disclose the terms of cooperation. However, Facebook has publicly stated that it does not make money from this partnership, and is currently giving Google updates only public profile pages that anyone can view.

Twitter has equipped a search engine on its website. But Biz Stone, co-founder of the ' mini ' social network, said Google would be better at providing real tweets that are relevant to users' questions.

Image search results page Google with the content box updated directly in the middle.

' Our search engine is not good in the relevance of questions and results. Google is very good , 'he said. ' More people will get value from outside Twitter when we let Google do it .'

Twitter also has a different partnership agreement with Microsoft in updating it directly on the Bing search engine.

' Google's new features are most likely to be most useful for hot event news like earthquakes, when people want to keep up-to-date information without wanting to go through many sources ,' said Danny Sullivan, editor of blog World Search Engine, comment.

'In other circumstances, ' said Mr. Sullivan, ' the direct roll seems to minimize waste. It only takes an insignificant amount of time to complete since the information has appeared in Google's regular search results . '

Google also introduced some other remarkable products at the press conference on December 7.

The most ambitious product is called Google Goggles , which allows Google to send photos from Android phones, such as a book cover, and get information about the content of the photo right away.

Google Goggles, allows sending Google photos from Android phones

This technology has a very interesting use potential: people can send Google a photo of someone, if they don't have the basic information, then get enough information about that person to avoid one. meet unintended.

But Google said the image recognition technology would need to be improved and considered more fully in terms of privacy before being put into application. Google Goggles works on phones running the Android operating system and will soon be available on other phones.

Google also outlines achievements in voice search and technology that make it easier for people to search the Web from mobile phones. The company said it could now allow people to say requests to the Google search engine in Japanese, in addition to English and Chinese. The company plans to add more languages ​​next year.

To demonstrate this feature, a Google employee spoke Japanese for a long time on a Motorola Droid phone, asking the best restaurants near Google headquarters in Tokyo. In response, the phone returned a detailed area map with marked houses.

' We were only in the third decade of the personal computer revolution, and perhaps only now do we open our eyes to the possibilities we can achieve ', Vic Gundotra, vice president blame Google's engineers, said. He cites achievements in wireless connectivity and the Internet services people have achieved.

Mr. Gundotra also demonstrated an application that allows you to read a paragraph into your phone in English and the phone reads back in another language. He said the technology will be introduced next year.