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• 10 Dec 09
  

  - Google lifted the curtain today on a host of new features that incorporate time and place into its search results, including the coming integration of Facebook and MySpace status updates into search results.

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  • clearly the goal is to cement its position as preferred search engine for social-network users, and to give anyone searching better visibility in what is being said at a given moment.
  • Google's mobile search results will now include a section containing a rolling list of real-time updates from sources including newly published blogs and pages, feeds from Twitter and public Facebook and MySpace updates. Google will also show the real-time trending topics being discussed.
  • "The big challenge isn't pulling in the information from across the web quickly -- it's sorting through it and putting the good stuff at the top," said Harry McCracken, editor of the Technologist. "In a way, this is similar to the challenge that Google tackled when it was founded. There were other search engines, such as AltaVista, but nobody had figured out how to determine which sites should be at the top of results. Google nailed relevance back then, so they have as good a short as anyone at addressing it with real-time search."
  • "My sense is mobile search will end up being a bunch of things -- there's voice input, you'll use a map, you'll use a camera," said independent mobile search analyst Greg Sterling. "The context and modality with which you have in mobile is much more varied than on a desktop. None of this is a translation of the desktop experience."

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• 09 Dec 09
  

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  Google lifted the curtain today on a host of new features that
  incorporate time and place into its search results, including the coming
  integration of Facebook and MySpace status updates into search results.

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• 08 Dec 09
  

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  In addition to real-time search, Google showed off its first augmented-reality app for Android it calls "Google Googles," which allows you to point your mobile phone's camera at an object and submit that image as a search query. You can snap pictures of a

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