Posted by Yushi Jing and Henry Rowley, Google ResearchEarlier this week, we announced the Labs launch of Google Image Swirl, an experimental search tool that organizes image-search results. We hope to take this opportunity to explain some of the research underlying this feature, and why it is an important area of focus for computer vision research at Google.As the Web becomes more "visual," it is important for Google to go beyond traditional text...
Monday, 23 November 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009
Posted by Jon Feldman and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NYThe 50th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) was held a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. This conference (along with STOC and SODA) is one of the the major venues for recent advances in algorithm design and computational complexity. Computation is now a major ingredient of almost any field of science, without which many of the recent achievements would not have happened (e.g., Human Genome decoding). As the 50th anniversary of FOCS, this event was a landmark in the...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Posted by Mike Belshe, Software Engineer and Roberto Peon, Software EngineerCross-posted with the Chromium Blog.Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster. SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression. We started working on SPDY...
Monday, 2 November 2009
Posted by Pedro J. Moreno, Research ScientistGoogle Search by Voice was released more than one year ago as a feature of Google Mobile App, our downloadable application for smartphones. Its performance has been improving consistently and it now understands not only US English, but also UK, Australian, and Indian-English accents. However, this is far from Google's goal to find information and make it easily accessible in any language.So, almost one...
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