Google fellow Amit Singhal and Alan Eustace, Google's Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research were in Tokyo the other day, talking, what else, search.
Alan Eustace, head of Google's engineers worldwide, pointed to a recent prediction that mobile phone searches would overtake desktop searches in 2012.
"There will be new things that you do on a phone that never occurred to you; just like navigation right now [and] augmented reality," he said in an interview.
"I never thought voice search was ever going to work. I supported voice search my entire career as a research director but I never thought that it would reach a point where an untrained user could walk up to a device and input a query and have it correctly find the output."
B) New Zealand Also Probes Google (via WSJ)
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Authorities in Australia, Germany, Spain and Italy have [also] announced investigations into Google and its Street View service, which uses camera-equipped vehicles to take street images and mark the location of Wi-Fi networks.
In a letter to a lawyer for Mountain View, California-based Google, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal demanded detailed records on any information taken from networks in the state and how it was used.
The article also mentions that Missouri is running a similar investigation.
The countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland for Android devices 1.6 and higher.
Google yesterday announced a handy new addition to Gmail and Buzz: Both services now feature the ability to preview Google Maps. Users can enable the preview in Gmail via the Labs tab located in the service's settings.
If you go to Google.com on your iPhone or Android-powered device and search for an app, we’ll show special links and content at the top of the search results. You can tap these links to go directly to the app’s Android Market or iPhone App Store page. You can also get a quick look at some of the app’s basic details including the price, rating, and publisher. These results will appear when your search pertains to a mobile application and relevant, well-rated apps are found.
The new mobile service is only available in U.S. More countries coming.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
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