New Google Search Features: You Can Now Search By Voice And By Dragging & Dropping Images

Google announced a set of new features at its big search event, Inside Search, which took place today. The main ones are voice search on desktop computers (not just smartphones) and enhancements to Instant Search and Image Search. Without further ado, let’s get to to them!


Voice Search arrives on the desktop


Google Voice Search, or essentially the ability to speak to your search engine, has been available in phones for years. Both the iPhone and Android have had native Apps that support that feature for a long time, and now the same capability is being made available to desktop users as well. Over the course of this week, users of Google’s English website will see a new microphone icon next to the search field: clicking on it will bring up Voice Search, like so:

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