A Summer of Speaker Sessions by Googlers

Looks like we're in for a treat over the next few months & this summer is going to be filled with exciting demonstrations and talks by Google. Canada, Singapore & North Carolina are just some of the locations on the map that will be seeing the likes of Googlers' presentations.

Next month at the ChannelAdvisor Marathon 2006, Google's Michael Adelberg, a  Strategic Partner Development Manager for Google Local will be presenting a case study titled: "Search, Froogle, Base – What You Need to Know About Listing with Google". ChannelAdvisor, a provider of channel management solutions for online sales and auction sites, will host its third “Marathon” conference on May 3-4 in Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center located near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. 

And in June, Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer and VP, for Search Products & User Experience will be a guest speaker at iX 2006 (Infocomm Media Business Exchange) which is Asia’s largest infocomm and media event in Singapore.

Come July and Google Earth & Google Maps will be the center of attention during GeoWeb 2006 — the first-ever conference where hundreds of GIS professionals will come together to focus exclusively on consumer-oriented, enterprise, and government technologies and the Internet in Canada this summer. The CTO of Google Earth (Gearth), co-founder of  Keyhole and Gigapxl Project team member, Michael Jones, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 4-day conference and some of the workshops that Google will be conducting revolve around Google Maps Mashups,  Google Earth & KML. 

 

Voice Interface for a Search Engine – Patent Won!

5 years ago, Google filed a patent for Voice Interface for a Search Engine and today they were granted the patent! According to the abstract at USPTO, the voice search engine is described as system which provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.

In November last year, I had put together a guide of google services at the time in blog-fashion and had listed the Google Voice Search (GVS) which was an early candidate of Google Labs. Since the patent was filed in Feb 2001, the Google Voice Search was tested in 2002 as a demo, but soon afterwards the service was discontinued for unknown reasons. Google's Research Publications, which details papers written by Googlers, lists a paper in PDF format by Alex Franz and Brian Milch (CS Department at University of Californmia, Berkley) titled: Searching the Web by Voice.