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Google has introduced new technologies to pump up its search abilities. A new real-time search tool updates the user's query results with recent news, blog postings and social network updates on the topic shortly after they're published. With Google Goggles, Android users can perform searches using an image of an object taken with a cellphone camera.

Google on Monday announced expansions to its search service that will provide real-time content to update search results.

Google also demonstrated Google Goggles, a visual search application that calls up information from Google's databases when people take a photo of objects with their Android phones.

In addition, the Internet search giant announced partnerships with several prominent social networking sites.

Getting the News Now

The new real-time search capabilities provide the latest information to Google searchers. Immediately after they get their search results, Google will bring up live updates from people on popular sites such as Twitter and Facebook's FriendFeed as well as headlines from news and blog posts that have just been published.

Searchers can customize their results, filtering them to restrict feeds to particular sites such as Twitter and FriendFeed, for example. The latest results and the new search options will be available on iPhones and Android phones as well as on PCs.

Google has added the "hot topics" label to Google Trends to indicate the most common topics people publish to the Web in real time. Baghdad, Tiger Woods and John Lennon were the top three hot topics in the United States on Tuesday morning, and searches about Tiger Woods constituted the top three hot searches in the U.S. The top 10 hot topics and hot searches are listed on the Google Trends page.

Getting to Friend You

Google also noted new partnerships with Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca on Monday. It struck up a partnership with Twitter some weeks ago.

These partnerships help Google enhance its real-time search features by letting the Internet giant's search engine sift through their sites for the latest published information.

Its partnership with MySpace is noteworthy -- the social networking site is part of Fox Interactive Media, a property of News Corp. The media conglomerate's chairman, Rupert Murdoch, is currently in a staredown of sorts with the search leader's news aggregator site, Google News.

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