Google New Search Technology

Google is researching better search.

Google Voice Search

Google patents “Voice interface for a search engine” which allow user to search by voice.

A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.

[Read United States Patent: 7,027,987, via arstechnica]

Google New Search Algorithm

Rather than just sending people off to relevant web pages when a search is performed, Google could now display text answering those queries directly in the Google interface, either as Google-branded answers or as text excerpts from websites it would otherwise be sending people to.

[Read bit-tech.net | Google to change the way it searches]