Its search application, which allows users to call a restaurant or hotel directly from the search results or text the location to a friend, has been downloaded 1.5 million times so far and will soon carry ads served from its own ad network.
But search advertising--the small text ads placed beside search results--show signs of relative health.
Trying to search videos without access to the spoken text is like trying to search for a book that mentions Roman emperor Nero by looking through book reviews.
Leveraging WebGL and Javascript, the system samples the search giant's images and generates text art using the appropriate characters and hues.
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For books with hazy copyrights the books that are covered by the proposed Google book settlement Google serves up much shorter snippets of text around the search result.
Google claimed at the time it was protected by the "fair use" principle because its book search engine showed only short snippets of text for the books it had scanned without permission.
Absolutely everything, from search habits through website visits to the text of any messages.
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The text-based search was restricted to looking either by type of garment or designer, neither of which he found helpful.
Kathy McKeown, who will be the director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, said research projects in the media center will include the development of more sophisticated search tools for content in online videos and the tracking of online text, video and images to understand when people express opinions and how they persuade each other.
Tap an app icon and your search text is handed off to the app in question.
While Windows Phone users will find the tightest integration of all, the Android port still lets users steer through the Dashboard, input text, browse the web (with zooming), search for local content, and control media playback.
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They'll include iMessages, the texting feature already available on mobile devices, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
Last year, while studying for a history exam, he grew frustrated with the flood of text from Google search results.
Bookmark pages and return to them instantly, or search for particular passages and jump straight to the text you're looking for.
"Video search is difficult, " he says, explaining that most video search looks for descriptive text in tags attached to the video, which can be incomplete or misleading.
These ads are typically a few words on the side of a page of search results or text, and fetch Google anywhere from pennies to a couple of bucks.
Another eMarketer study in October found that video spending grew 47.2% in 2007, more than either pictorial display ads or the text ads that appear next to search results.
The search giant revealed it is working on technology that it will allow it to translate images of text, on the fly, into another language.
In addition, people can use the improved search capabilities and share their location immediately via text messages or email to other browser-enabled phones.
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So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college to focus on bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.
Since Stave does many custom puzzles, management guru Tom Peters had a dozen made from a copy of the cover of his famed text, In Search of Excellence, to celebrate an anniversary of its printing.
Mountain Lion will contain more than 2, 000 new features, including iMessages, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
At the time, Google had four people working on AdWords, a program for selling the small text ads that appear next to related search results.
The days are long past when Internet search was mostly confined to text on websites.
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Facebook competes with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL in the text and display advertising market as well as the search advertising market.
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The phone might be able to list the locations of several nearby and the service provider might charge a certain gas station a few dollars to put it at the head of the line in that list in the same way Google.com charges for its search-based text ads.
The Aimster software lets users search for and swap MP3 files instead of text messages.
The first, semantic search, allows for a more sophisticated interpretation of text.
And in our relentless search for another message, and another, that unthreatening and controlled environment of the text message, we end up treating others as things.
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