So Google entered the real-time search space in a big way today with the help of Twitter Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed and others. Google officials also unveiled the Google Goggles mobile visual search technology, the What's Nearby location-based service and Google search by voice in Japanese. Let's look at some visuals, along with commentary. First, the real-time search. Google is processing 1 billion documents per day in real-time, according to Google Fellow Amit Singhal,

Tweet your fave raves for the past year with Yahoo! By all accounts, 2009 was pretty rough year: economic meltdowns, persistent war, piracy on the high seas, fires and floods. You name it, we endured it. But not all the news was bad. This year saw a new world land speed record for a steam-powered car; America's first commercial Zeppelin"yeah,

Google has introduced a very cool new feature for android devices, called Google Goggles . The feature is just a "labs" experiment at this point, but it can already do some very interesting things, and has the potential to do much more. The official description is as follows: Google Goggles lets you search Google using pictures from your camera phones. We take an image as input, and using several image recognition backends (object recognition, OCR, face matching, etc),

DVR and online video continue to show considerable growth in the U.S., up 21.1% and 34.9 percent respectively, in time spent in the third quarter of 2009, according Nielsen's latest Three Screen Report. In Q3, the average American watched 31 hours of TV per week, with 31 minutes spending playback mode with their DVR. In addition, each week the average consumer spent 4 hours on the Internet and 22 minutes watching online video.

In the olden days, PR professionals might have gotten an hour or more of face time in which to sweet talk someone over a meal. Now, they occasionally make pitches in 140 characters. So you can imagine how the information shared during a conference session titled "Online PR: Where to Next?" could prove quite useful to a lot of people. (Coverage of SES Chicago continues at WebProNews Videos . Keep an eye on WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week.

At Google, we're committed to giving you the information you want â?" regardless of the form in which it might appear. Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. For example, if you want to learn a magic trick, a video showing you how to perform the trick is likely the best result. So over the past few years, we've blended videos, images, maps and more into the search results on Google.com.

Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour has always been a thorn in the side of the online ad industry. Harbour, whose term was supposed to expire this September, was the lone dissenter in the FTC's approval of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, and has since recommended privacy legislation , and lamented Google's recent purchase of AdMob. Today, speaking at the FTC's privacy roundtable in Washington, D.C.,

The fact that women are powerful is hardly news, but recent studies suggest that moms may very well represent the National Power Grid for the United States. In a white paper published by Advertising Age ,   The Rise of the Real Mom ,  the Boston Consulting Group states that  moms control $4.3 trillion of the $5.9 trillion U.S. consumer spending total, or 73% of household spend.  The Shriver Report , issued in October,

Hello everyone, Eric Duprat here from the PayPal mobile team. Analyst firm, Gartner Inc, just released results from their October 2009 mobile app report entitled, "The Top Ten Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012" and they forecast that money transfer will be the top app with mobile payments closely following in .

Google released Google Maps 3.3 for Android today, which lets users find nearby businesses, try new experimental "Labs" projects, and report problems with map data from their phone. Users can check to see what businesses are nearby at anytime, by simply long-pressing on the map, tapping the bubble, and going to the option that says "What's Nearby?". Users will get a menu that shows a business, and it can be clicked on to see more nearby places.