Google Adds Real-Time, Image, Social Tweaks
Posted by Josh Tomaka
Google announced they are going visual, audio, location-based, social and real-time this past December. The new enhancements include a visual search tool known as Google Goggles, audio search tool Google Voice, a real-time audio language translation, location-based "what's nearby?" searches, and up-to-the-second, real-time searches incorporating Twitter and news feeds.
Google spokesperson Amit Singhal claims that new information is being created from around the globe every second from the many different forms of user-generated content, as well as regular Web page activity. Rather than crawling the Web for new data once a month, as Google used to do, they must serve up new data instantly as it becomes available. Their goal is to create a seamlessly integrated information environment.
The real time search feature scrolls along a section of the results page. It has a pause button to allow users to stop the scrolling and a scroll bar to allow users to see what they have missed.
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