Google reveals visual search ambitions with Google Goggles
08 Dec 2009 | by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - Google has launched a new product for its Android phone that searches using the camera rather than via keywords.
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LONDON - Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices are currently the most searched for products in the UK this festive season, while searches for toys increased by 18.9% in the run-up to Christmas, according to Experian Hitwise.
LONDON - Google has launched a new product for its Android phone that searches using the camera rather than via keywords.
LONDON - Google has unveiled its long awaited real-time search function, announcing that it has partnered with MySpace and FriendFeed to provide the service, along with Twitter, which signed up a few weeks ago.
LONDON - Google is taking its local search to the streets of the US by sending out 100,000 Google Favorite Place stickers, readable by mobile phones, to the business that have been most sought out on its search and mapping sites.
NEW YORK - Google is extending its personalised search to users who are not signed in to a Google account, based on 180 days worth of search activity stored on an anonymous cookie.
NEW YORK - Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has started his own Twitter feed, after being quoted earlier this year as calling the service a "poor man's email system".
LONDON - Microsoft's search engine Bing went down yesterday for up to 30 minutes due to a "configuration change" made to the site during internal testing.
LONDON - Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and eBay have sent a joint open letter to Lord Mandelson urging him to reconsider plans to give the business secretary power to make new legislation regarding copyright laws.
LONDON - Google has formally introduced a new design to its iconic homepage using a "fade in" feature which creates a clean page with lots of white space around the Google logo.
LONDON - Google has appointed glue London and BBH Labs to handle global communications strategy and advertising for its Chrome browser.