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Google makes audio search a Labs project
News The speech-recognition technology was used in an online application, launched in July, that let people search political speeches, and now the Gaudi (Google Audio Indexing) project has an official interface at Google Labs.
[September 17, 2008, 12:23]
Google Suggest aims to speed up search
News Google expects to 'graduate' a feature from its labs to its main search page in the next week aimed to help users execute faster and more specific searches. Google Suggest, which is similar to services offered by Yahoo and the recently launched...
[August 26, 2008, 8:33]
Google squares up to complex searches
News Google Squared, one of the company's Labs projects, was first announced in mid-May and was released to the public on Wednesday. Komoroske was keen to stress that the technology behind the Google Labs project was by no means perfect.
[June 4, 2009, 17:20]
Google gives developers code-search capabilities
News The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group, will crawl publicly available code, most of which is made available through open source projects. Since it is a Google Labs project, the company is not yet seeking to monetise...
[October 5, 2006, 9:50]
Yahoo snatches up email search company
News Yahoo has quietly purchased email software company Stata Labs, in what could be an investment in a coming PC search tool to rival those of Google and Microsoft. Stata Labs, a privately held company based in San Mateo, California, sells an email...
[October 22, 2004, 9:10]
Google pilots 'Suggest' feature
News Google Suggest quietly debuted this week on the company's Labs site, which showcases Google features that "aren't quite ready for prime time," according to a message on the site. Google regularly launches new features in its Labs section, using it...
[December 10, 2004, 15:50]
Google invites users to test new Gmail features
News Users can select from 13 new features in a 'labs' tab in the Gmail settings page, said Keith Coleman, a Gmail product manager, in a meeting with reporters in Mountain View, California. Any engineer can code a labs feature," Coleman said.
[June 6, 2008, 8:32]
Voice-interface patent published by Google
News A demo of something called Google Voice Search has been up on Google Labs, Google's pre-beta-test site, for well over a year. Google Voice Search, still up on Google Labs, lets people call into Google by phone.
[April 13, 2006, 10:35]
Google slips out open source OCR engine
News The engine, Tesseract, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP Labs to some acclaim, but was filed away when the company pulled out of the OCR business. Google has announced that it "quietly released" a veteran optical character recognition (OCR...
[September 5, 2006, 12:55]
Google set to woo non-Internet users with voice search
News Now he's focused on the future of search and is excited about some innovations which are accessible in pre-beta form in the Labs section of the Google site. An embryonic version of the speech search is already available on the Google Labs Web site...
[March 24, 2004, 13:10]
Google removes malicious advertising links
News All the paid-for links masqueraded as legitimate sites and redirected Google users to the actual sites after sending them to smarttrack.org, which served up the malicious code, Exploit Prevention Labs said.
[April 30, 2007, 9:21]
New tools for Google Desktop
News Mayer led a demonstration of Google Notebook, which she said will be available on Google Labs next week. Google Trends, available immediately on Google Labs, graphs the number of global searches on whatever term a Google user types into the search...
[May 11, 2006, 9:05]
McAfee: Malware scam using Google developer site
News Along with the legitimate code are links to fake videos that direct users to download a missing codec, said Dave Marcus, director of security research for McAfee Avert Labs. The problem is similar to one that was found to be plaguing Microsoft's...
[January 12, 2009, 8:02]
Start-up targets more personal search
News Now that Web search has become a moneymaker for portals such as Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, technologists from all the industry players are back in the labs developing formulas to personalise search. When it comes out of the labs and what flavour it...
[August 11, 2003, 14:30]
Google links search to location
News Google said on Monday that Google Labs, the search company's research-and-development arm, has unveiled a program that lets people type in a search term, along with an address or postcode, to find Web results and a miniature map from within the area.
[September 23, 2003, 10:10]
Google introduces Fast Flip news service
News It is a Google Labs project that expands the presence of publishers on Google News, organising and displaying authorised screen grabs of news stories — not snippets — within the Google News site. Google on Monday released a service that will let...
[September 15, 2009, 8:38]
Google adds improvements to Code Search
News The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group and launched in October, can crawl publicly available code, most of which is made available through open-source projects. Google has expanded the capabilities of its Code Search...
[July 9, 2007, 17:48]
Google searches for personal connection
News The company introduced testing tools for its Personalised Web Search and Web Alerts on Google Labs, its public developmental playground. As the search wars intensify, Google hopes that making a personal connection with its visitors will give it an...
[March 30, 2004, 15:05]
Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel
News Google Spreadsheets, which will go live on Tuesday as part of Google Labs, supports the import and export of documents in the .xls format used in Excel and the .csv (comma-separated values) format, said Jonathan Rochelle, product manager for...
[June 6, 2006, 9:10]
Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
News On a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that the security implications of Google caching details of Internet sessions were unacceptable. A software tool launched by Google on Wednesday that speeds up the process of downloading Web sites...
[May 5, 2005, 17:45]
