Google users will be able to search by talking to a computer or dropping an image in the search box, the company said Tuesday at Inside Search, an event in San Francisco.
Google will also pre-load the Web pages it predicts users are most likely to click to save two to five seconds during a search. Google has offered voice search on mobile phones, but now users of Google’s Chrome browser will also be able to speak search queries to their computers.
Google users will also be able to search by image, if they can’t remember where they were in a vacation photo or don’t know which country a flag belongs to, for instance. They can paste the Web address of an image, upload a photo from their desktops, drag and drop an image into the search box or use Chrome or Firefox extensions.
Google analyzes the fundamental features of the image, like lines and shapes, and matches it with results in its database of images. It will not use face recognition except when the picture is of a celebrity and already exists on the public Web. Google also introduced Instant Pages, which pre-loads likely search results so that when someone clicks on a Web page, it loads a few seconds faster than it used to.
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