Posted by Franz Och, Principal ScientistAre you using Google Translate to access the world's information? It can help you find and translate local restaurant and hotel reviews into your language when planning a vacation abroad, allow you to read the Spanish or French Editions of Google News, communicate with people who speak different languages using Google Translate chat bots, and more. We're constantly working to improve translation quality, so if you haven't tried it recently, you may be pleasantly surprised with what it can do now.We're especially...
Monday, 31 August 2009
Monday, 17 August 2009
On the predictability of Search Trends
Posted on 14:19 by Unknown
Posted by Yossi Matias, Niv Efron, and Yair Shimshoni, Google Labs, Israel.Since launching Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, we've been providing daily insight into what the world is searching for. An understanding of search trends can be useful for advertisers, marketers, economists, scholars, and anyone else interested in knowing more about their world and what's currently top-of-mind.As many have observed, the trends of some search queries are quite seasonal and have repeated patterns. See, for instance, the search trends for the...
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Under the Hood of App Inventor for Android
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown
Posted by Bill Magnuson, Hal Abelson, and Mark FriedmanWe recently announced our App Inventor for Android project on the Google Research Blog. That blog entry was long on vision but short on technological details--details which we think would be of interest to our readers.Of particular interest is our use of Scheme. Part of our development environment is a visual programming language similar to Scratch. The visual language provides a drag-and-drop interface for assembling procedures and event handlers that manipulate high-level components of...
Monday, 3 August 2009
Two Views from the 2009 Google Faculty Summit
Posted on 14:59 by Unknown
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives[cross-posted with the Official Google Blog]We held our fifth Computer Science Faculty Summit at our Mountain View campus last week. About 100 faculty attendees from schools in the Western hemisphere attended the summit, which focused on a collection of technologies that serve to connect and empower people. Included in the agenda were presentations on technologies for automated translation of human language, voice recognition, responding to crises, power monitoring and...
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