Google Launches Instant Pages, Goggles, Voice and Image Search

Today Google announced the launch of its new features that will change the way people search over the Internet. With these new features available, with an un-matching speed of Google, there is nothing that could not be searched over the Internet.

1)Google Goggles

This cool feature enables you to take a snap(picture) of whatever is written in front of you and it takes it in as a input, matches the characters with different Languages and gives back the translated result. Moreover, it can detect 3 different items at the same time like text, logo, barcode, product etc...
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2)Voice Search

For Desktops and Mobiles.

All those users of Chrome Browser who have Chrome 11 onwards, will see a new icon of Microphone in the right corner of www.google.com search box. On clicking on it, you can speak into your microphone yosearch, June 14, 2011, press release, goggles, mobile search, instant pages, mobile sur query. The voice recognition system scans this voice uses the Chrome's speech technology for processing the input. As of now, it coves only the ENGLISH users and is hence only available for www.google.com. To make this possible, Google fed in 230 Billion words of just English language with various accents and combinations into their systems to learn the patterns.
The added feature is the fact that just because of the presence of android on your Mobile device, the other applications also become voice enabled without any explicit coding. An hence, voice search can be used by them easily.

3)Image Search

Even this feature was only available exclusively for the Android users. Now Google has taken a leap ahead and launched this service for the Desktop users today. Using the Chrome toolbar, users can now drag and drop images into the Search Box to find out the matching results. Google will take up the image and perform the search on publicly available images over Internet to display the results.
The code is available as Open Source and hence this feature can be included in other browsers like firefox via addons in near future.

4)Instant Pages

The Instant search got even faster. Instant Pages can get the top search result ready in the background while you’re choosing which link to click, saving you yet another two to five seconds on typical searches. As you scan the results deciding which one to choose, Google is already pre-rendering the top search result for you. That way when you click, the page loads instantly.
The Instant pages work with a super fast speed to give back not only the the Web results but also the image results associated with any text query made at the search box. The speed with which the image and web results are fetched back to the user is simply outstanding.

5)Mobile Search

Google Launched a new interface for the Mobile searches with a better auto-completion designed to help you perform a search and more easily understand the results. Google introduced mobile local search to Google.com, an improved local result experience, auto-complete improvements, and Russian language OCR in Google Goggles.

6)Local Search

This feature has been introduced to Google Mobile to give the results that are more relevant to the users and their present geographic location based on the IP of the user.

7)New Version of Auto Complete

This new version of Auto-complete is better in terms of easy and speed from its successors. This is bound to improve the user experience and change the way people search on Google and its various products and platforms.




Google focuses on Accuracy and Ubiquity in their searches to make user experience pleasant. The focus is to take the Phone features that are only available to Android users can be taken to the Desktop environment so that they can be used widely even by non-android users. As far as the Privacy issues are concerned, Google has made it clear that all the queries fed into the system for search will be treated same as the other text queries. Even the images will be treated as the pattern of pixels and no face-recognition algorithm will be applied on them to maintain the anonymity. All these features are being rolled out and will be available Globally within next 1 week and will have full support of all features in the next version on Chrome which is due for release in next few days.