template name Uncategorized
Categories: Uncategorized    Tags: , , , ,

GoogleGoogle’s CEO Eric Schmidt has said the company wants to create “the perfect search engine” but he hasn’t said what he thinks that would be like. Luckily one of his employees, Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search & User Experience, has. Read on for a vision of speech recognising, concept unpicking future search…

We told you earlier in the week that Google is preparing to roll out “Google Caffeine“, its faster, more real-time search algorithm but what else does the future hold for search?

Asked by IDG News what she though a perfect search engine would look like, Mayer said:

It would understand speech, questions, phrases, what entities you’re talking about, concepts. It would be able to search all the world’s information, different ideas and concepts, and bring them back to you in a presentation that was really informative and coherent.

Mayer answered criticisms of Google’s ‘basic’ look by talking about the search engine firm’s culture of constant tweaks and changes:

We have two, three, five changes every week that are visible to the end-user in the UI but we don’t publicise ranking changes. We are making changes to our ranking algorithm at the rate of two per day. Some of our competitors haven’t made any changes to their ranking function for some time.”

Mayer didn’t name those “competitors” but she’s likely to be taking a shot at Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing search engine which some claim is gaining ground on Google.

She also revealed that Google’s approach to various types of search is constantly changing too. Asked if Google’s universal search will “always be a work in progress”, Mayer says: “We have a local team, an image team and a product search team. They’re all looking at how we can do a better job ranking and triggering this content.”

Out now | £free | Google (via PC World)

One Response to “Top 10 innovations of 2009”

  1. novak84 says:

    I would agree that Spotify mobile is an amazing app. I have it on my N97 and is by far the best mobile app i have used.

Leave a Reply

Please note: comment moderation may be active so there is no need to resubmit your comments.
New year, new Electricpig! Click to see what's changed
Sony Ericsson W395 review

We love how the Sony Ericsson W395 echoes the look of Sony's Walkman line

ratingratingratingratingrating
Skullcandy Full Metal Jacket 11mm review

Oddly muffled, Full Metal Jackets sound like you’re listening to a party next door. One you’re not invited to.

ratingratingratingratingrating

More reviews

More news

N900 Video Fest: Browsing, chatting and singing!

Christmas is nearly upon us, so stop pretending to work on that spreadsheet, and take a gander at the handset you could find nestling under the tree on Christmas morning. It’s the N900 Video Fest, put together by our buddies at Nokia Conversations. They’re showing off the Nokia N900 with 30 videos lasting 30 seconds [...]

More videos

More galleries

N900 Video Fest
Suggestion Box
Nokia N96Nokia 5800

Mobile Phones

Compare over 250 mobile phones & 52,000 deals!

[template - STANDARD-single.php]