Our suspicion is that's the number of Google Instant search users active so far.
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Google Instant search, for example, requires both predicting outcomes as people type queries, and searching for the right results.
Last Wednesday Google announced Instant search, an impressive technical achievement that shows probable search results in real time--as you type letters into the search box.
Google is running in the other direction, though, with things like Instant Search, which is keen to give me an answer before it knows everything I was going to type.
It does not have the instant gratification of a search ad but it does have the life-time value of sales, ROI, amplification and advocacy from the community.
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These are big bets, but the Internet's unique strength lies in letting users personalize their news, communication and entertainment online, in Web logs and instant messages, file sharing, search queries and personal software.
To watch movies or TV episodes from Amazon Instant Video on iPhone and iPod touch, customers can simply search for the content they've already rented or purchased from Amazon Instant Video-including the latest hit movies like The Dark Knight Rises, Brave and The Amazing Spiderman and the latest episodes from TV series like The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy and The Vampire Diaries.
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It gives us instant credibility, high visibility in the search engines, and significant traffic, even apart from the value of the services we have built on top of it.
But a person familiar with the matter said the patents relate to fundamental Internet technologies, including email, instant messaging, Web browsing, Web search, online advertising, mobile technology and e-commerce.
In December, aiming to lure more consumers to its MSN Mobile service--a portal that connects cellphone users to MSN Search, news, Hotmail and instant messaging--Microsoft struck partnerships with MovieTickets.com and Thumbplay The deals enabled MSN Mobile users to access movie listings and reviews, and purchase movie tickets, ringtones and games straight from their cellphones.
All manner of personal correspondence, including transcripts of intimate instant-messaging exchanges, can be unearthed by search engines.
It is called Google Instant Previews, and it is a powerful advantage for search.
Google and Yahoo engineers publish software code for public consumption--a way to access their maps, say, or a temporary link to their search tool--and in a near-instant developers around the globe are building new software based on it.
The company says Google Instant could shave between two and five seconds off a typical web search.
It is the Goliath of the Web, with search, e-mail, e-commerce, instant messaging, classified ads, and even its own virtual planet with Google Earth -- all adding up to one mega-market cap.
And he adds that Instant on mobile could prove even more important than adding the service to desktop search.
Google on Wednesday released a new instant messaging and voice chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.
Google released a new instant messaging and voice-chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) released a new instant messaging and voice-chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market.
Scalado Album is very easy to use and has features like super fast browsing and viewing, instant zoom and pan into up to 200 megapixels images, smart sorting by places, search nearby, date and others, fast and smart search and find features, animated thumbnails for videos, and much more.
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Google gave web site owners some tips for optimizing their sites, which were part common sense and part its observations of how Instant Previews preformed during testing (short answer: users are 5% more likely to be satisfied with their search results if they get to preview the sites).
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