universal search features in Suggest; try searching for for weather, currency conversions, or flight status. This dramatically improves your ability to benefit from previous queries, getting you answers more quickly and easily than ever before. And just last week, we brought speed to a whole new level with realtime search — so that you can find information that is literally just seconds old.

As these “time-to-result” efforts continue to emerge in 2010, we’ll keep pushing the envelope on indexing speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. And that means you can expect the search experience to get more social, more personal, more interactive, and more ubiquitous — getting you the information you’re exactly looking for when and where you need it. Ultimately, the faster you get what you’re looking for, the more enriched your life will be, and that makes us very happy. So what’s the ultimate goal in the future? Allowing only a single barrier to instantly getting you the search result you’re looking for — the speed of light.

Here’s to a great 2009, and an even greater 2010 in search!

Posted by Jack Menzel, Group Product Manager, Search

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This week in search 12/18/09