March 30th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Linne Ha, International Program ManagerRead more about the launch of Voice Search in Latin American Spanish on the Google América Latina blog.Today we are excited to announce the launch of Voice Search in Indonesian, Malaysian, and Latin Ame…
March 24th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Hyunyoung Choi and Paul Liu, Senior EconomistsA few years ago, our in-house economists, Hal Varian and Hyunyoung Choi, demonstrated how to “predict the present” with monthly visitor arrivals to Hong Kong. We took this idea further to see…
March 16th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Yossi Matias, Senior Director, Head of Israel R&D CenterIn an effort to advance the understanding of market algorithms and Internet economics, Google has launched an academic research initiative focused on the underlying aspects of online…
March 10th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Jason Weston and Samy Bengio, Research TeamIn our paper, we introduce a generic framework to find a joint representation of images and their labels, which can then be used for various tasks, including image ranking and image annotation.We foc…
January 31st, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Daniel Wolf, Software EngineerToday, we launched Julia Map on Google Labs, a fractal renderer in HTML 5. Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, Benoît Mandelb…
January 27th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Slav Petrov, Doug Aberdeen, and Lisa McCracken, Google ResearchThe machine learning community met in Vancouver in December for the 24th Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS). As always, the single-track program of the main c…
January 25th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Corinna Cortes and Alfred Spector, Google ResearchGooglers actively engage with the scientific community by publishing technical papers, contributing open-source packages, working on standards, introducing new APIs and tools, giving talks and…
December 20th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Research
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google BooksWhen we started Google Book Search back in 2004, we were driven by the desire to make books searchable and discoverable online. But as that corpus grew — we’ve now scanned approximately 10…
December 17th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Ryan Hickman and Mamie Rheingold, 20% Robotics Task ForceWith a beer fridge stocked and music blasting, engineers from across Google—and the world—spent the month of October soldering and hacking in their 20% time to connect hobbyist and …
December 15th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Karen Parker, App Inventor Program ManagerIn July, we announced App Inventor for Android, a Google Labs experiment that makes it easier for people to access the capabilities of their Android phone and create apps for their personal use. We w…
December 8th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsWe’ve just completed the latest round of Google Research Awards, our program which identifies and supports faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. We had a record nu…
December 7th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchI am delighted to share with you that, like last year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that four Googlers have been elected ACM Fellows in 2010, the most this year from any single corp…
December 2nd, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Posted by Yun-hsuan Sung (宋雲軒) and Martin Jansche, Google ResearchOn November 30th 2010, Google launched Cantonese Voice Search in Hong Kong. Google Search by Voice has been available in a growing number of languages since we launched o…
November 9th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Pedro J. Moreno, Staff Research Scientist and Johan Schalkwyk, Senior Staff EngineerWelkom*!Today we’re introducing Voice Search support for Zulu and Afrikaans, as well as South African-accented English. The addition of Zulu in particular r…
November 4th, 2010 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Ullas Gargi and Rich Gossweiler, Research TeamIt seems clear that the TV is a growing source of online audio-video content that you select by searching. Entering characters of a search string one by one using a traditional remote control and …
