Tayyab Bin Tariq » Google http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com I like sharing what i know Fri, 21 May 2010 20:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Google goggles http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/12/20/google-goggles/ http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/12/20/google-goggles/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:40:39 +0000 tayyabtariq http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/12/20/google-goggles/ Google has recently launched its latest in image search, called Google Goggles. It is an application for Android operating system that allows a user to perform searches based on images instead of text.

According to the official statement “Google Goggles works best on books & DVDs, landmarks, logos, contact info, artwork, businesses, products, barcodes, or text. Right now, it’s not so good at pictures of animals, plants, cars, furniture, or apparel”.

It does not surprise me that Google has developed this application. What is most interesting is how quickly Google has transformed ongoing research into a product. It was only a few months back that I read the Google paper on landmark identification, and here it is neatly bundled into an application.

My interest in Computer Vision and object recognition also makes me wonder as to how the folks at Google were able to make all this work at such a large scale. The paper I reference above provides clues but the transforming the said research into an application has some serious data flow problems. One answer can be inferred from the statement quoted above. The user has has to specify a category before with the search image. Meaning there is some case specific optimization involved. If this is true, the image search problem in the general case is still un solved!

Here are some links:

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/

http://www.google.com/googleblogs/pdfs/google_landmark_recognition.pdf

]]> http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/12/20/google-goggles/feed/ 0 Google aims offensive at Microsoft Office http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/google-aims-offensive-at-microsoft-office/ http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/google-aims-offensive-at-microsoft-office/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:41:17 +0000 tayyabtariq http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/google-aims-offensive-at-microsoft-office/ Original Article by Sharon Gaudian posted on Computerworld.

In ongoing war between the two rivals, Google takes to the streets

In the latest shot fired in Google Inc.’s ongoing battle with Microsoft Corp., Google announced today that it’s taking this fight to the streets.

Literally.

Google is kicking off a month-long ad campaign for its online suite of enterprise office applications. The campaign will have the search giant leasing billboard space in four major U.S. cities — New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston. Each work day will have a different message for commuters to take in.

The move comes less than a week after Microsoft announced it is partnering with Yahoo on a search and online ad deal. The two companies announced that they had finalized negotiations on a long-anticipated deal that will have Microsoft’s Bing search engine powering Yahoo’s sites, while Yahoo sells premium search advertising services for both companies.

The deal is geared to hit Google with a united force much greater than either Microsoft or Yahoo could muster alone. Individually, neither company has much of an effect on Google and its overwhelming search market share. Together, though, they hope to at least make a dent.

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research Inc., noted that while Microsoft is busy going after Google’s search market, Google is using the billboard campaign it go after Microsoft’s bread-and-butter Office suite.

"Each company is targeting the other right now," said Gottheil. "They’re laying the groundwork for what they both see as an inevitable collision in the future. Right now, neither company is deriving much revenue from its presence in the other’s space… Microsoft is more vulnerable because they must cannibalize some of their current application revenue to expand their application market, where Google only has to maintain a rough technical equivalence with Microsoft to maintain its search franchise."

Google’s ad campaign and Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo are just the latest moves in this ongoing fight between industry giants.

In June, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine, Bing, an update to its far-from-beloved Microsoft Live Search. And with Microsoft’s advertising power and a lot of media attention behind it, Bing has shown strong numbers just out of the gate. But with only 8.23% of the market, Bing has done little more than nibble away at Google share, which is just over more than 78% of the search market.

]]> http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/google-aims-offensive-at-microsoft-office/feed/ 0 Marriage of convenience http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/marriage-of-convenience/ http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/marriage-of-convenience/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:38:43 +0000 tayyabtariq http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/marriage-of-convenience/ Source: eWeek.com

Microsoft’s Bing gained a single point of market share in July, bringing its total to 9.41 percent, according to a new report by StatCounter. The recent partnership deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has given both companies hope that they can challenge Google, which currently holds a double-digit lead in the search market. Under the terms of the partnership, Bing will power search on Yahoo sites, while Yahoo takes over worldwide sales duties for the companies’ search advertisers.

Microsoft’s share of the U.S. search market increased to 9.41 percent in July 2009, a rise of 1 percentage point, according to research firm StatCounter. At the same time, Google’s share of the U.S. market slipped during the same period to 77.54 percent, down by nearly a point, while Yahoo declined a fraction of a point, from 11.04 to 10.95.

StatCounter’s report came days after the July 29 announcement of a partnership deal between Microsoft and Yahoo: that 10-year agreement that will see Microsoft’s Bing power Yahoo’s search engine, while Yahoo assumes exclusive worldwide sales duties for the companies’ search advertisers. Microsoft will pay traffic acquisition costs (TACs) to Yahoo at an initial rate of 88 percent of search revenue generated on Yahoo’s sites.

The deal represents a recognition on both companies’ part that the only way to break Google’s lock on the search and online advertising market may be through working together. According to StatCounter’s report, a combined Microsoft and Yahoo search would have a 20.36 percent market share.

]]> http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/08/06/marriage-of-convenience/feed/ 0 Google Image Search: New Options http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/07/26/google-image-search-new-options/ http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/07/26/google-image-search-new-options/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:06:48 +0000 tayyabtariq http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2009/07/26/google-image-search-new-options/ Recently I noticed some new features on Google Image Search. The image search that was awesome already has added some two great new options. Whenever you search for an image, you can select a type and color.

You can select from a number of types; News, Face, Clip art, Line drawings and Photo. The filtered results are extremely quick and accurate. Moreover, you can also choose a color and Google would give you the images where the selected image is dominant.

Being interested in Image processing myself I know that the second is pretty easy but, categorizing the images between News, Face, Clip art, Line drawings and Photo is pretty darn difficult.

I am a little awe struck and I little worried about my FYP now :)

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اب آپ کے پاس اردو میں نہ لکھنے کا کوئی بہانہ نہیں
http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Urdu
Tyep: aaj ki taza khabar
and see the transliteration  آج کی تازہ خبر
I’ll encourage everyone to start using this and similar services
widely and also spread the word.
The more text there is available in Urdu, the better are chances that
we can preserve our language; this will help us export our culture to
the outside world and also import the knowledge in all the various
languages to the speakers of Urdu language.
Hopefully this will be integrated with gmail, docs etc, soon.
Please spread the word..

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I found this very interesting and funny mistake on Google, check out the red circle.

google spell mistake

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