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Google Word Completion and Search Query Suggestions from Social Network Connections?

Bill Slawski — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:26:42 +0000

When you type a query into a search box at Google or Yahoo or Bing on your desktop computer, chances are a dropdown listing of suggested query terms will appear below the search box.

If you use a smart phone, and start typing into a text box on your phone, your phone may [...]

Google on Archiving and Retrieving Documents Using Your Camera Phone

Bill Slawski — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:50:52 +0000

You’ve returned to your hotel room from a business meeting with a pocket full of business cards from people that you’ve met, and receipts from your business trip. One at a time, you place the cards and receipts on a desk in your room and snap pictures of them with the phone on your [...]

Phone Keyboards and Seachers Using Predictive Query Suggestions

Bill Slawski — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:13:38 +0000

A few years back, finding myself stranded on the side of the road with a broken down pickup truck and being over an hour’s drive from home, I convinced myself to finally get a mobile phone.

I didn’t necessarily want to have a phone hanging at my side all of the time, [...]

Google Granted Patent Can Filter Distortion in Unused TV White Spaces

Bill Slawski — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:50:06 +0000

Google is aiming at providing wireless internet access in unused television channels in the white space between channels 2 and 51 on TV sets that aren’t hooked up to satellite or cable services.

While many stations broadcast between these ranges in the US, most areas have gaps where there aren’t broadcasts carried on [...]

Microsoft on Personalized Phone Portals

Bill Slawski — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:08:49 +0000

Do you use MyYahoo as a portal page every time you access the Web? If you were away from your computer, and had a few minutes to spare, would you consider calling that page, and listening to it over the phone, to get your stock picks, or horoscope, or sports scores?

A newly granted [...]

Google Patent Application on a User Interface for a Phone

Bill Slawski — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:12:17 +0000

After lots of speculation about a Google Phone, or an operating system from Google, we see a patent application published at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and assigned to Google, that primarily focuses upon a user interface for displaying search results on the small screens of handheld devices, and which suggests the use [...]

Second Thoughts on a GPhone: Privacy and Targeted Ads

Bill Slawski — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:02:00 +0000

A couple of months ago, the Wall Street Journal provided some speculation about a Google phone in an article titled Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market.

It’s difficult to tell how much is speculation, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has gone on record as saying that he believes that consumers [...]

Google Learning Speech Recognition for Voice Search from MTV?

Bill Slawski — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:24:42 +0000

How might a voice search engine learn new words that have been introduced into popular speech, such as “da shiznet,” and learn and understand different pronunciations of words, such as might be found in spoken language based upon regional differences?

A newly published patent filing from Google provides some hints.

Last April, Google [...]