Google’s September 8th Announcement Is About Search
Google has announced a press event for tomorrow, September 8th, to discuss searching.
It seems obvious, except recently Google has been about almost everything except search, so it’s worth stating out in the open.
The invite alludes to a single large announcement relating to search, and mentions the “evolution of Google search”.
Google is certainly rolling out the big guns, with Marissa Mayer, Johanna Wright, Ben Gomes and Othar Hansson leading the event.
The event will take place at the Museum Of Modern Art in San Francisco. Some have speculated that the location is an indication that Google wants to discuss updates to its Google Goggles visual search technology.
It’s widely believed that Google will be announcing a music storage and download service around Christmas time, but until then Google might actually plan to focus on search for just a little while longer.
My understanding is that Google has been making tweaks to their search system since the beginning of the year and that user activity is playing a much bigger role than it used to. Being that the most popular sites on the internet are those that allow updates, (Facebook, Twitter, etc) comments, (Mashable, Youtube, et al) and interaction between the users, it would seem to be a natural progression that Google figures user activity into the equation when ranking sites.
Relevant blog comments should help too.
New instant results! Looks great.
Ahhh:
Is there a live-streaming?
Google music storage! Google TV! – I just hope everything they put out gets their full attention. Wasn’t there something they pulled recently 🙂