Did you know you can now do an image search on Google - by drag and dropping an image into the search box?

It's like Google Goggles but works with any image on your computer.

Not incredibly accurate at this point, but I remember when it was a new thing, to speak into a microphone and have it translated to text. No one thought it was ever going to be very good, let alone inexpensive.

Now Natural Dragon costs under $100 and is highly accurate.

Same thing with music recognition. Shazam is amazingly accurate.

Watch for this technology to get better and better and become widely used.

Posted by Richard R. Byrd at 09:33 AM | Permalink

Bing (the search engine formerly known as "Live" formerly known as MSN) has had some success because of their connection to airline reservation systems, enabling them to serve up flight information directly in search results.

Now Google has purchased ITA, an airline reservation system, for some $700 million.

Watch pretty much the last reason to use Bing evaporate rather quickly now.

This is why Google remains the 600 pound gorilla in Search. Any time a competitor does something both new and sensible, Google includes it in themselves as fast as they can. And with their latest software, Caffeine, they can do so FAST.

Posted by Richard R. Byrd at 08:01 AM | Permalink