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Google Goggles in the browser. Nice stuff (via @rhymo)
Mayer then shifted to talk about what we’ll see in the future. She specifically mentioned Layar — ”a digital layer on top of reality”. But she says we can go further than that. “Contextual discovery is taking your location and a little context” — if you had a photo of a bird, how would you convey that bird to a search engine, other than typing something like “bird with a white head and black body”? In the future, you’ll be able to use something like Google Goggles to just upload that snapshot as your query.
The next Facebook or Hyves? Your address book. Just published my own Google profile that linked to my complete social graph and joined the social search experiment in Google Labs. Not getting any results yet. Not all social networks are indexed at this moment, the rumour goes. Am really excited about the possibilities of this step and look forward to seeing the first search results from my friends showing up in a Google query.
So I don’t know how to characterize the next 10 years except to say that we’ll get to the point - the long-term goal is to be able to give you one answer, which is exactly the right answer over time. Okay, you know, the question I’ll ask today, how many Americans have - what percentage of Americans have passports?…The Google’s answer was a site, which was somebody who had attempted to answer that question and had multiple answers. It’s quite interesting actually to read…So you go to a very good definitive site. And what I’d like to do is to get to the point where we could read his site and then summarize what it says, and answer the question…Along with the citation and so forth and so on.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the future of search. Indeed, still a long way to go!
