Google unleashes perhaps its most significant search engine enhancements in years, adding real-time search results aggregated from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and turning on its Google Goggles mobile visual search application in Google Labs. The new technologies come as Google is defending its 65 percent market share from renewed attacks by Microsoft Bing, which thanks to a just-consummated deal with Yahoo will give Microsoft control of almost 30 percent of the search market. Google also adds Search by Voice in Japanese, and What’s Nearby, a location-based feature on Google Maps for Android 1.6+ devices.
– Google Dec. 7 unleashed perhaps its most significant search engine
enhancements in years, adding real-time search results aggregated from Facebook,
Twitter and MySpace and turning on its Google Goggles mobile visual search application in
Google Labs.
Google Fellow Amit Singhal, the company’s res…