Google, just after releasing the news on its impressive earnings, came up with three farreaching innovations within the last week.

At first a new search function has been announced, which is in the reach of a couple of other innovative companies for image search technologies. Similarity search, a feature comparing and finding images by comparison, has been mooved from Google Labs to the image search as a regular feature.

Similar Images graduates from Google Labs

Secondly the launch of a free mobile navigation system for the Google Android mobile operation system has been announced. This release had the power to influence the stocks of other market leaders in the business of navigation systems, the german press agency Pressetext reported.

Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0

A really big coupe concerns the regular search results for queries about music. Now to users searching for music some links appear on the top of the results, similar to maps for local oriented search queries, referring to download sites and shops. This is a comprehensive function using information from various third party internet services and databases. E.g. one may search for text fragments, if the name of an artist or a title is unknown.

Making search more musical

Probably by such features the future remains bright for Google. But especially the music search feature reminds of the times before Google, the times of large internet portals, which aimed to serve news to and for everyone. Then by a complete contrary concept the success story of Google started. What may distinguish the former concepts and the concept of Google today might be advanced technologies enabling to deliver information just to those people who are searching for that information.

Directory Sources: Internet News