A: google says its results will be treated equally - A: images work best for well-documented buildings and locations - apparently not so much for finding out who lives in a particular home... unless that home starts being photo tagged, I suppose
Q: what about lawful queries about voice requests - Google says it makes its searches annonymous. (although, some agencies have been able to track searches, I'm told)
Q: Images search... is it face recognition? A: No... and neither does Google do island recognition. And Google again states that it does not do Facial recog
Google says the secret sauce of helping loading these pages faster is Google's Page Visibility API - web developers allow pages to be pre-rendered - hmmmm it's an interesting relationship
A question about Instant Pages - it's one part Pre-Fetching, but adds in the relevance engines because you cannot always anticipate what will be chosen
Singhal recaps - mobile search is growing... "Speak Now" added for desktop, Google Instant coming to image lookup, and Instant Pages coming to Chrome first
Cohen - foundations of speech interface success means that there needs to be accuracy and ubiquity (available everywhere - every language, platform, device)
demo time - they are searching for restaurants (Ajax and modern browser technology) and come up with the usual maps - but scrolling down means that you get specific information about these sites
I certainly think that mobile search is where its at - but it's not just about smartphones. I think tablets and laptops are also factored into that number
They are trying to prevent the barriers of a "train of thought" - let's say you are walking with your iPhone and have an idea - but the network is slow - that's a barrier
We're not sure - At this point, there was a post on the Google Blog page that was quickly taken off - But the sentiment here is that it will have to do with Mobile
This is where you will find a live blog of the Google Inside Search Event. We're coming to you from San Francisco at a museum near Moscone Center.
This was billed as:
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The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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