Google to include personal email in search engine result page:
San Francisco, August 09: Google is testing a new feature that will allow its web search engine results to integrate information from the accounts of users personal email like Gmail.
"Sometimes the best answer to your question is not available on the public - can be contained elsewhere, such as your e-mail," wrote Amit Singhal, Google senior vice president in charge of the search, in a position in the company blog.
"Starting today, we are opening a limited test in which they can register for information right from the Gmail search box," Xinhua quoted him as saying.
Singhal said the new feature is an attempt to make the Google search results for "truly universal".
As an example cited by Google, once signed by users searching for "flights" in public Google search engine on the web, go to check your confirmation emails for the next flight to travel right into the top of the search results.
Google said the field test the new feature is now only accessible on its website search google.com in English.
Singhal also announced that an improvement in its search service, called Knowledge Graph, will now be extended to users in all English speaking countries after its launch in the U.S. in May 2012.
With the knowledge graph, users will see a panel on the right side of the search results page of Google, which provides a summary of key facts about the search for users with more useful and interesting information related to the topic in particular.
According to Google, the graph function of knowledge is based on its database now includes over 500 million in the real world of people, places and things with 3.5 million data on connections between them.
In another update to its search engine, Google said Wednesday it will soon offer voice search on their search applications for users of Apple's iPhone and iPad because of the availability of the function on devices running the operating system Google's Android.
"Sometimes the best answer to your question is not available on the public - can be contained elsewhere, such as your e-mail," wrote Amit Singhal, Google senior vice president in charge of the search, in a position in the company blog.
"Starting today, we are opening a limited test in which they can register for information right from the Gmail search box," Xinhua quoted him as saying.
Singhal said the new feature is an attempt to make the Google search results for "truly universal".
As an example cited by Google, once signed by users searching for "flights" in public Google search engine on the web, go to check your confirmation emails for the next flight to travel right into the top of the search results.
Google said the field test the new feature is now only accessible on its website search google.com in English.
Singhal also announced that an improvement in its search service, called Knowledge Graph, will now be extended to users in all English speaking countries after its launch in the U.S. in May 2012.
With the knowledge graph, users will see a panel on the right side of the search results page of Google, which provides a summary of key facts about the search for users with more useful and interesting information related to the topic in particular.
According to Google, the graph function of knowledge is based on its database now includes over 500 million in the real world of people, places and things with 3.5 million data on connections between them.
In another update to its search engine, Google said Wednesday it will soon offer voice search on their search applications for users of Apple's iPhone and iPad because of the availability of the function on devices running the operating system Google's Android.