Palm webOS: Google Instant search works on your Palm device.

WorldWideTech. Francisco De Jesús. Nov 05, 2010

As you can see on the image below the Google Instant Search works on your Palm device. You will have  all the options for search on the: Web, Images, Places News and more....

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BW: Google Uses AI to Make Search Smarter

Imagine a future in which smartphones are always on—automatically translating conversations, hunting data, even talking back. At Google, speech recognition and visual search are just the start. 

About 10 years ago, Peter Norvig helped develop software that temporarily operated NASA's Deep Space 1 spacecraft as it functioned without human help, more than 60 million miles from earth.

Norvig's current job as director of research at search giant Google (GOOG) keeps him focused on matters much closer to home. Norvig often shows up for work at the Mountain View (Calif.)-based company's headquarters known as Googleplex, wearing Hawaiian shirts and spending his days creating computer systems that help people search for answers to questions that aren't clearly defined. These can be as mundane as locating the best nearby pizza joint.

"It sounds not as dangerous as computers that take over the world, but it's something that helps with complexity and uncertainty," Norvig, 53, says in an interview.

The results of his work may be no less far-reaching than the exploration of Mars. It touches on how billions of people already use search, browse the Web, circulate e-mail, and translate documents and speech on personal computers and mobile devices.

In years to come, artificial intelligence (AI) systems might remind us of our appointments, drive our cars, and connect us with friends. "Imagine a very near future when you don't forget anything because the computer remembers," Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said at a Sept. 7 conference in Berlin. "You are never lost. You are never lonely."

AI in action: Google Instant

For Google, which spent $2.84 billion last year on research and development, artificial intelligence is a big focus. "We think of that as something that permeates everything we do," Norvig says.

"Google's probably gotten the most number of people doing this," says James Allen, associate director at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, a nonprofit research firm affiliated with several universities. Google doesn't disclose the number of its staff working on AI-related projects, nor does it break out AI spending.

Artificial intelligence innovation could directly affect Google's revenue, which rose to $23.7 billion last year. Take Google Instant, a new search tool launched in early September that uses AI to guess what a person is searching for as they type keywords into the search box. Instant can save a user two to five seconds per search, according to the company.

The time savings should encourage people to turn to Google more frequently, ultimately lifting its advertising revenue, Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Marianne Wolk wrote in a Sept. 9 note. Search engine advertising contributes almost 97 percent of Google's revenue, according to Bloomberg data. "This innovation in user experience could improve Google's market share lead and at a minimum, force competitors to play catch-up," Wolk wrote. In August, Google completed almost 72 percent of all Web searches in the U.S., according to consulting firm Experian Hitwise. Rivals Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing followed with 14.3 percent and 10 percent, respectively.

Artificial intelligence is pushing the use of Google on mobile devices, where it also dominates search. Google Instant, when it becomes available on mobile phones later this year, should increase the company's appeal to consumers on the go, driving up mobile ad prices, Wolk wrote.

Source BW: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2010/tc20100920_708019.htm

8  Tips for Google Instant Search

Analysis: A revolution in Internet navigation or the next Clippy? Google Instant is fun to play with, so let's try to figure it out.

Related before post with VIDEOS: http://worldwidegadget.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-instant-search.html

Google Instant could be a revolution in Internet navigation. Or it could the 21st Century's Microsoft Clippy. Either way, it's fun to play with. Read on to find out how to get more from the latest from the wizards of Mountain View.
It's localized and personalized. The service weights results in favor of your search history, and searches that are local to you. For example, I live in San Diego, when I type "D" the first search that comes up is the California Department of Motor Vehicles, and "S" gets me "SDG&E," for San Diego Gas & Electric.

Type the Google alphabet. Typing "W" calls up weather as the first result. The whole list for me: Amazon, Bank of America, Craigslist, DMV (California Department of Motor Vehicles), Ebay, Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Ikea, Jeromes (a San Diego chain of furniture stores), Kaiser (for Kaiser Permanente), Lowes (the movie theater chain), MySpace, Netflix, Orbitz, Pandora, quotes, REI (outdoor gear retailer), SDG&E, Target (retailer), USPS (United States Postal Service), Verizon, Weather, Xbox.com, Yahoo, Zillow.
I get the same results whether I'm logged in or not, with private browsing switched on in Firefox, with cookies cleared, and with permission revoked for Google to use my location (which is actually a little disturbing -- why is Google still showing me search results for the local power company and furniture store if it's not supposed to know who or where I am?).

Use keyboard shortcuts. Speed up searches by using the up and down arrows to scroll, tab to complete, right-arrow for "feeling lucky," and "enter" or "escape" to just search on the text you typed.

It's like a command line for the Internet. Combine abbreviations with keyboard shortcuts to navigate even faster. For example, let's say you want to visit Facebook. Enter the letter "f," down-arrow to the first search term, right-arrow to "I'm feeling lucky," and you're on your way. Similarly, for Microsoft.com, type m-i-c, down-arrow twice, right-arrow, and you're there.

Sanitized for your protection. It tries to filter out results that are NSFW (not safe for work). Searches on the F-word, the N-word, and the word "porn" all come up blank. This is to prevent nasty surprises when your boss or darling niece or nephew are looking over your shoulder. You can still search on those words normally.

It's a PR win for Google. Late last month, Yahoo and Microsoft combined their search operations to take on Google. With instant search, Google fights back.

It isn't where it needs to be -- yet. Power-searchers tend to search from the browser search box or Google Toolbar, and Instant isn't available there. It only works on the Google home page.
Saving individual characters typed isn't a big deal on the desktop. Most of us type fast enough. Mobile devices are the places where every single character counts, and Google Instant isn't on those devices either.
Also, Google TV. Typing on TiVo is torture, and I expect it'll be the same for Google TV. It would be a huge win if Instant comes to Google TV, and it's ideally suited for the kinds of searches we do when we search for TV shows and movies, Wired's Tim Carmody notes.

Google Instant won't save any significant amount of time. Google's Marissa Mayer said at the event that the primary benefit of Google Instant is time saved. "Our testing has shown that Google Instant saves the average searcher two to five seconds per search. That may not seem like a lot at first, but it adds up," she said.

No, it doesn't. Time doesn't work that way. Add up a million two- to five-second increments and you still have a million two- to five-second increments. You can blow your nose in that amount of time, but that's about all you'll get done.

Even if Google search is faster, it requires users to learn a whole new way of searching, which will slow them down at least at first.

On the other hand, it's fun to use, so it might be a coup for Google for that reason alone.


  

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