Voice-based web search for Google Mobile App for iPhone

Personally, I don’t find typing in search queries into Google all that difficult, but Google plans to have a mobile application that will allow you to say your search terms rather than type them. The strange fact in this news is that it’s going to launch on the iPhone first.

The reason for this is that Google has separated its mobile division from its Android division. The mobile team is therefore only concerned with getting apps out the door and selling, rather than creating a better mobile community for a select group of device owners.

“I want to bring the most valuable applications to as many users as possible,” said Gummi Hafsteinsson, senior product manager for the mobile team. “We treat all high-end [mobile] platforms equally.”

In order to get the voice search, all you have to do is have the Google Mobile App for iPhone. The voice search will come in the form of an update. To use speak search, simply open the app, hold the phone up to your ear and tell the Google Genie what your heart desires. Stay tuned for the update!

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2 Responses to “Voice-based web search for Google Mobile App for iPhone”

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1 Brian
November 17, 2008 at 12:49 pm

I understand the logic in getting an innovative product out to the iPhone right away. I think getting it to Apple at the same time as your own OS is understandable but not BEFORE. That makes no sense! What does that say to the people who use your product? It says you don’t value them. I hope this is not a trend.
2 Kyle
November 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm

@Brian - Yeah true that. I don’t really understand it myself. I guess it’s a corporate decision that says one must be independent and competitive relative to the other.

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