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Google to include personal email in web search results
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 08, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
Google on Wednesday started
to try a new search feature which would enable its web search
engine results to integrate information from users' personal email
accounts such as Gmail.
"Sometimes the best answer to your question isn't available on
the public web -- it may be contained somewhere else, such as in
your email," Amit Singhal, Google's senior vice president in
charge of search, wrote in a post on the company's blog.
"Starting today, we're opening up a limited trial where you can
sign up to get information from your Gmail right from the search
box," he said.
Singhal noted that the new feature is an attempt to make Google
's search results to be "truly universal."
As an example cited by Google, when singed up users search for
"my flights" on Google's public web search engine, they will see
their flight confirmation emails for any upcoming trips right on
top of the search results.
Google said the field trial of the new feature is now only
accessible on its search website google.com in English.
Singhal also announced that an enhancement to its search
service, called Knowledge Graph, will now be extended to users in
every English-speaking country after its launch in the United
States in May 2012.
With the Knowledge Graph, users will see a panel on the right-
hand side of the Google search results page, which provides a
summary of key facts about users' search with the most useful and
interesting information related to the particular topic.
According to Google, the Knowledge Graph feature is based on
its database which now includes more than 500 million real-world
people, places and things with 3.5 billion facts about and
connections among them.
In another update to its search engine, Google on Wednesday
said that it will soon offer voice search in its search
applications for users of Apple's iPhone and iPad following the
availability of the function on devices running Google's Android
operating system.
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