Google announced the launch in 11 countries in its "Navigation Maps," which includes the voice guidance and allows users to speak Spanish, French, German and Italian advantage of the help in the search for directions.
According to the announcement, users in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland can copy the version 4.2 of Google Maps Navigation, already available in the U.S. and the UK.
In so doing, provide instructions for guidance "to each change of direction" as long as they have a smart phone with Android 1.6 or higher.Google initially said guidance instructions to its operating system for smart mobile phone last October and the decision has had some lasting impact on the field of guided navigation.
For example, in January followed in the footsteps of Nokia and Google announced its own set of guidance instructions Ovi Maps.According to Google, voice communication has always been the natural way to interact with Google Search phone and voice users can say what they want, instead of typing a text.
This facility was initially developed for English and then to Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. The goal, Google said, is to bring "Search" (search) voice users in all languages.
In addition to work with Android phones, "Search" voice phones can run on iPhone, BlackBerry and Nokia S60, the firm added.
Moreover, the firm announced a new indexing system, called "Caffeine", according to Google search substantially accelerates data over the network.
Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team explained that before the firm explored a fraction of the network every night, indexed and added content to its results, and now, thanks to "Caffeine", the search engine scans the network, find new information and the index immediately.
"We process the information immediately so that we can offer it seconds later," said Cutts.
When Google started its work updating its index once every four months. Around 2000 he began to index every month in a process that took a week to ten days.
Now is "Caffeine" is used in all schools and, according to Cutts, "greatly increased" the ability to "enhance the indexing of documents in the order of 100 petabytes."
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