Google has a commanding lead in the global internet searchengine market, although its market share has shrunk sharply during the past month after Yahoo stopped using Google technology to power its searches.
Technology commentator Robert Scoble said that the new feature would present a real challenge to Microsoft searchengine Bing, which has been slowly chipping away at Google's lead in thesearch market.
Google is also likely to continue long-term bets including driver-less car technology and an effort to scan all the world's books and make them available on thesearchengine, both of which were pet projects for Mr. Page.