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Google introduced new features to their web search, including voice search, search by images, and instant pages
At Google’s Inside Search media event yesterday (14 June 2011), the search giant introduced three new features to its web search: voice search, search by image, and instant pages.
Google Voice Search is a feature that has been available on mobile devices for some time now, but according to Google Fellow Amit Singhal, voice recognition should be available wherever you are.
Voice search is rolling out to Google desktop search for Chrome users and Google said that you should start seeing a little microphone in every Google search box.
Google also announced Search by Image which will allow you to upload an image to Google Image Search to ask Google to figure out what it is.
Search by Image is rolling out globally in 40 languages, Google said, along with Firefox and Chrome extensions to allow you to search any image on the web by right-clicking.
In an effort to decrease the time it takes to get to your search results Google launched Google Instant which guesses what you’re about to search for before you’ve typed it.
Yesterday they announced Google Instant Pages which will fetch and pre-render the top search result for you. To try this feature users will have to get hold of the next beta release of Google Chrome or the latest developer version of Chromium.
Source: Google Blog
