Google search

Whenever I’m looking for an answer to a trivialÂ question I normally type in the question on the Google search box. Yes, that’s how lazy I am. And so far Google search results are pretty much accurate and were able to give me some good links. Interstingly, most of the links to the answers given by Google are entries from Yahoo! Answers.

The point I’m trying to drive at here? Google badly needs a Yahoo Answers-like service. A crowd-sourced database of information that is of capable providing the best answer to the most mundane question that could possibly come up from anyone’s mind. And Google seems to be embarking on achieving that feat. To start off, it just acquired a social search engine called – Aardvark.

Aardvark’s model is pretty simple, you ask a question and Aardvark will find the perfect person to answer your question in minutes. Aardvark has several interfaces, via an iPhone app, IM, email and of course its web interface at vark.com.

Aardvark’s technology taps into the knowledge and experience of your friends and extended network of contacts. It analyzes your questions and determines what they are about until it is able to match each question to people who are knowledgeable about it to give you the final answer to your question. And it does that as quickly as it can.

Google has not announced yetÂ how it is going to take to integrate Aardvark to its various products and services, but as soon as the deal was finalized, Google quickly put Aardvark into Google Labs.

With Google Buzz as a social sharing site and now this social search engine, Google is really getting into the social game.

Originally posted on February 12, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

Move over real-time touting searching engines of sort. Learn it from the pro. Learn how to do it correctly from Google – the master of web search, mobile search, voice search, and now real-time search. While others are still prepping up their plans to integrate real-time streams into their search results, here comes the all mighty G announcing its real-time search results.

Google’s real-time search lets you discover news while it is happening thanks to Google’s so called real-time algorithms. Â It integrates live tweets, blog posts, news and other web content on a scrolling view embedded right on Google SERPs.

Even more fun is the fact that you can filter your real-time search results to include only updates from specific sites, be it Twitter, Friendfeed, Jaiku and others.

Google also added “hot topics” to Google Trends, a service that shows under what topics people are publishing their online content in real-time.

So practically now, Google can claim that is has finally answered the perennial question – “What’s Happening Right Now?”

Incidentally, aside from real-time search, Google is also introducing several new features to its other search-related products. Mobile Search can now be done by voice, location or sight through image scanning or what is now known as Google Goggles.

All these features will be gradually rolled out to everyone in the coming days. If you can’t see these features yet while using Google search, check out the attached video to get a feel of how Google Real-Time search does its tricks.

Originally posted on December 8, 2009 @ 6:43 am