As per recent reports, internet search giant Google may shortly be capable of delivering search results to its users even before they identify that they want the information.

Mr. Amit Singhal, one of Google's expert search algorithm engineers, aims to build up a search engine, which second-guesses users' requires well in advance.

While giving an illustration of his wife's forthcoming birth anniversary, he said, "It might suggest I buy her an iPad and point me to some relevant product reviews," he says. But SWS might also discover, again from fishing in recent social media, that the local gadget store has a three-week waiting list for iPads. "So it would bring forward its alert to give me time to order it."

Mr. Amit indicated that Twitter can beat newscasters to warn you of events, which might affect you: a tremor that hit San Francisco in January sent ripples through Twitter 10 minutes before a news alert from the US Geological Survey alerted the professional news media.

But, the drawback is that the search engine might prompt you for a whole lot of information about your life and the lives of those close to you.

It will know birth and marriage anniversaries, consumer gadget preferences, preferred hobbies and pastimes, even much loved foods. It will also know where you are, and be able to contact your local stores through their internet sites. (With Inputs from Agencies)