If you thought that what you had seen of search was what all that was there to offer then think twice. Something’s or rather some people haven’t yet called it a day. Google, the people who literally invented search engines, have gone back to their old habit- that of inventing and then again re-inventing. Google now has said that it is working on supplementing its search results with real-time live updates from sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. This will be done on a per second basis.
So now, if you happen to search for me or anyone else for that matter, you can get minute by minute updates of what I’m doing right in your search results rather that opening up Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. You can now know what’s going through my mind the moment I tweet it or see the photos that I've uploaded in Facebook the moment I do so.
This could also be helpful in case of earthquakes, bomb blasts or even sports updates.
Google’s foray into this field of real-time search would now enable users to see latest tweets, news items and social networking updates in the search results for certain topic searches.
Google has already started this feature on some of its search sites and will continue to do so in a phase-wise manner. If you want to have a look at it then visit the google.com page (not the Google India page). The Google.com page can be visited by either clicking the link ‘Go to Google.com’ on the Google India page or by directly going to google.com/ncr. Once on the google.com page try searching for something very relevant like ‘Copenhagen’. In between the search results you'll see a box where the latest blog updates, tweets scroll past. This box updates every few seconds.
Google had earlier struck an undisclosed deal with Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Many people (including me) were wondering as to what that would result in. But now all speculation is laid to rest.
Google rival Microsoft had also struck a deal with Twitter. So now expect real-time search capability in Bing too.
In addition to all this Google has also unveiled an ambitious project called Google Goggles. This allows people to send Google a photograph of a person or a building and in return get information about it.
So now in case you find someone familiar but can’t remember who, just click a pic and send it to Google and let it do the hard work for you. However improvement in image recognition technology and privacy implications would have to be considered and worked out before it could be effective. As of now, Google Goggles works only on phones running Google’s Android OS. This will be soon available for other phones too.
Google has also made significant progress in its Voice Search, which allows people to search for information from the web simply by speaking their queries in Google. Now Japanese has also been added to the list of English and Chinese. More languages will be added in the new year.
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