Showed translated speech in real time, image search, real-time search and news in localization.
Yesterday, Google took the museum to the IT story in Silicon Valley (Computer History Museum) and gave a demonstration of technological superiority. The referral in the American press describes the demonstration as "overwhelming".
Google's development manager Vic Gundotra demonstrated a prototype of this: He spoke in a few sentences in Spanish: After a few seconds restored mobile phone the same sentences in spoken English. The automatic and virtually simultaneous translation occurs somewhere in the "network cloud".
Google is hoping to support all the world's major languages with such a service once in 2010.
Another exciting news is real-time search.
A video on Youtube showing how this works: Mon enter a search string such as "Obama": The latest links with the U.S. President to appear in a continuous stream, about the same time as they are published.
A variation of this technology is available on Google Trends. The difference to what was demonstrated yesterday is that the Google Trends search results are static: they do not flow down the page as new links corresponding query run.
To try the service already today, you must be prepared for some "Tweaking". You must enter goggle.com and have English language interface. Select a search on a topic that you know will get many new links in a short time. Look at the URL currently loaded in the browser's address field. Note that all parameters starting with the character "&". Enter this string in front of a random "&" "& esrch = RTSearch". Click the "Show options". Then you will have a field of options to the left of the window. Select "New". Then you will get a continuous stream of updated terms.
Real-time search Google for Barack Obama. New terms are continuously as they are published. The latest is a few seconds old. Twitter messages are equipped with their own boxes.
Visual search has been talked about and demonstrated a long time: Instead of searching, one takes a picture of what you are wondering, and search service provides information about the depicted.
Google has not only demonstrated this. Yesterday, they released it as a service for mobile phones under their operating system Android, under the name Google Goggles. Also this service is shown in a video on Youtube.
Google Goggles can recognize books, paintings, landmarks and the like. It can be used to transfer a business card, interpret it and store the information in the appropriate field in the mobile phone's contact database. If you want background information about a business, you need not take a picture of the facade: It is enough to let the camera pick up the facade and then click a "find" icon: Google Goggles serves information collected about the store, taken from various sources.
Google's image index to currently contain around one billion images.
Person protectors is concerned that the visual search may violate the privacy of that anyone can wander around the streets and obtain background information on all encountered only by trapping them in a mobile camera.
Google says the time being, has decided not to include the Face of Google Goggles.
Many mobile services benefit from automatic adjustment depending on where you are. The most typical is the search. Google promises soon to facilitate its "Product Search", to allow hits to local shops, with updated information on whether the current store has the product in stock. The search is for restaurants, it's great to have hits, ranked according to how close they are to where you are. Android-owners in the U.S. will be able to enjoy it immediately.
Another service that Google thinks to facilitate localization, is "Google Suggest". On mobile phones, where the input is more challenging than on PCs, Google Suggest is used to suggest alternative search strings from the first letters Mon keys. What one is interested, will of course depend on where you are. The demo was not very convincing: The entry "re" on a cell phone who thought it was in San Francisco suggested Suggest first REI, a shop for tents and Turan moves. On a mobile phone who thought it was in Boston suggested Suggest course, the local baseball team, Red Sox.
Google's developers are working also on top gear. Here, an overview of the news they have launched in the last 67 days:
