Google on Wednesday also launched a website where Internet users can peek at features the world's most popular online search engine is experimenting with.
The website at www.google.com/experimental shows tests Google is doing with services such as generating time-line charts and maps to put search results into chronological or geographical context.
People are able to sign up to take part in the Google experiments, Mayer said. [Mayer is Google's vice president of search products and user experience]
Google said "very soon" it will launch software that translates queries from any of a dozen languages into English, scours the Internet for relevant web pages and then converts the results to a searcher's language.
"That, in effect, will make the Web universal," Google vice president of engineering Udi Manber said while describing the "cross-language information retrieval" feature.
"We have been working on translating all of the Web to all languages. The results are probably not perfect, but the information you want will be there."
Google held firm that it is vigilant about respecting copyright material such as books, music and video and that it is keeping general, not personal, search data stored to protect the privacy of users.
And while Google is working to better organise the world's knowledge online, it insisted it is still leaving room for creative disorder.
"I think chaos is important in the right proportions," Brin said. "We have always run our company with about 20 percent chaos."
- AFP/de
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