Google gets serious about mobile

Google gets serious about mobileGoogle, the world’s No. 1 Web search engine, is getting serious about mobile as mobile traffic is reporting grow on top of the company’s desktop PC. L traffic.

Google’s seriousness about Mobile is obvious from the fact that two of the three technology updates that the company recently announced at a briefing in San Francisco for desktop were first available on mobile.

With Voice Search, the search giant made voice recognition search available for desktop. Desktop Chrome users will now see a microphone icon next to every Google search box, which will let users to speak their queries rather than type.

With Search by Image feature desktop users will be able to upload any picture or plug in an image URL from the web and ask the search engine to make search for it. In the mobile area, Google’s Goggles mobile app has let users to search by capturing their mobile photos with the mobile phones.

Google also introduced Instant Pages that has predictive nature to offer users a prediction of what they will likely click on before they have even hit a link.

The new technologies are expected to help Google maintain its dominance in the search market. Google's position in the Internet search market is not as secure as it once was, as it is facing cut throat competition from rapidly-growing Internet social networks such as Facebook.