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Google engineer Alan Eustace explains, "One of the ideas that we’re working on is machine translation. We strongly believe that there’s enough data on the Web and in the world right now to allow us to automatically translate from one language to another."


"I think it could be summed up in, 'search will no longer live only on your PC,


And if that’s not science-fiction enough, Battelle describes another advance potentially on the not-so-distant horizon. Users would, he says, "have a device which is in your pocket, which looks like a phone, and you go to a supermarket and you see a potentially overpriced box of pasta. And you take that device and you wand it over the product code, and you see comparison prices from Google of three other stores that are within a mile, OK? That’s power. That’s search. But no one has quite figured out that. That’s also the future.

Brin won’t say if it's something in Google’s future.