Dive summary:
- Google has been making some major changes to its search results page over the last year, and those changes don't appear to be slowing down.
- Google is looking to put users' personal Gmail information into search results, but as you might expect, privacy issues abound. Because of this, they are rolling this out in a limited field trial.
- They have also made changes to their voice recognition search. According to the Google Blog, "...Voice Search can better interpret your questions and sometimes speak the answers back as full sentences. This has been available on Android for a few weeks and people love it. It’ll soon be available on your iPhone or iPad (iOS version 4.2+)."
From the article:
Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It’s very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India, glued to our black-and-white TV for every episode of Star Trek. I imagined a future where a starship computer would be able to answer any question I might ask, instantly. Today, we’re closer to that dream than I ever thought possible during my working life—and here are some of the latest steps we’re taking today to make search even more intelligent:
