The rise of personal assistants and the death of the search box
Columnist Eric Enge recaps the SMX West 2016 keynote by Googler Behshad Behzadi, who envisions a not-too-distant future in which voice search becomes more ubiquitous — and may even replace the search box.
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Google developing keyboard for iPhone in hopes of boosting search volumes [report]
Keyboard part of a larger strategy to boost engagement with search on mobile devices.
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Destinations on Google delivers new travel planning experience for mobile users
A mobile search for a continent, country or state, along with the word “destination” or “vacation,” will return a series of travel options.
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Google Would Like You To Buy Products Using Voice Search
Google’s next frontier is conversational shopping, which would allow you to buy products without the click of a button.
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Teens Embrace Voice Search, Many Adults Feel “Like Geeks” Using It
According to a voice search study commissioned by Google, the most smartphone-obsessed teens are using voice search every day. However many adults feel self-conscious or embarrassed when they talk to their smartphones. The study found that 45 percent of US adults said they felt “like a…
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Google (Now) Beats Siri And Cortana For Direct Answers — Study
Stone Temple Consulting (STC) published a study in which it compared mobile answers to “3086 different queries” on Siri, Google and Cortana to determine how each performed relative to the others. Google was the winner with more direct answers and more complete information. Eric Enge who…
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Google Pushes Back Against EU Publisher PR Offensive
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took to the Google Europe Blog this weekend to defend his company against a Europe-wide ad campaign that asserts Google has abused its dominant market position in search. It’s essentially a public appeal on the same terms being argued to the European…
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Google’s Search App Is Now Truly Multilingual
Around the world millions of people are multilingual or partly so. In the US, census data reflect that 20 percent of the population speaks more than one language at home (though this really only captures immigrants). But in what I imagine is something …
Google: We’re Working On Multiple Language Translation Detection
Jon Wiley, Principal Designer for Google Search, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) discussion, where in one question, he was asked to share something cool he is working on. He shared that Google is working on a feature to listen to multipl…
Google Goes All-In With “OK, Google” Hands-Free Search
The evolution of voice-controlled search into a virtual personal assistant took another step forward with Google’s announcement that all Android-powered devices (KitKat or above) will now respond to the “hotword” OK, Google. Users can initiate a search or control and carry out any…
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Android TV Shows Knowledge Graph Search Results
Google’s just announced Android TV is a significant improvement over the original Google TV. It doesn’t require a game controller or bulky remote to work (though a game controller can be used for Google Play Games). And you can search for content with your voice. The UI is simple and…
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New Google Search App Feature Creates Radio Station Based On Recently Played Music
Last week, Google took to its Google+ page to announce a music-related Search app feature for Android users. Saying “Play some music” after tapping the Google search mic or saying “Ok Google” will prompt the app to create an “I’m feeling lucky” radio…
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Google Voice Search Easter Egg Unlocks “Cheat Mode”
Googler Pierre Far has found a Google Easter egg that opens up “Unlimited free Google searches” for everyone. According to Far’s Google+ post, doing a Google voice search for, “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right” on his Android phone prompted the voice…
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Google’s Latest Search Trick: “As The Crow Flies” Distance Calculation
Move over, pandas. Fly away, hummingbirds. Waddle away, penguins. Google has a new animal friend: crows. But unlike its past associations with the animal world, this one isn’t about SEO or algorithms — it’s a new search trick that adds distance calculation to Google’s OneBox…
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The Brave New World of SEO: Beyond Websites
We hear it regularly – the death knell tolling for SEO. In the past several years, we’ve been bombarded by a barrage of change in organic search, from Penguin to Panda to Hummingbird, from inbound link penalties to [not provided]. Let’s face it: the only constant in search is…
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Google Enables “OK Google” Hands-Free Voice Search On PCs
Through a Chrome browser extension users can now invoke the hotword (or hot phrase) “OK Google” to initiate hands-free searches on the PC. Voice search on Chrome was possible before but you needed to manually select the microphone. After the browser extension is installed you simply…
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Updated Google iOS Search App Includes Handsfree Activation, New Notifications, Reminders & Cards
Google released a new version of its iOS Search App today, with an extensive list of updates, including new notifications, reminder alerts, cards and a handsfree search activation feature. With the 3.1.0 version of the iOS Search App, iPhone 4s users can say, “Okay Google” or touch the…
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Local Voice Search Wars And The Opportunity For Businesses
Since the official inception of mobile voice search with Apple’s launch of Siri in 2011, consumers, search professionals and businesses have watched for the rise of voice search in local. Despite Siri’s initial inadequacies and obvious voice recognition challenges, savvy multitasking…
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Google’s Knowledge Graph Gets Smarter With Comparisons & Filters
Google’s Knowledge Graph is a little smarter today with the addition of filters and a way to compare two Knowledge Graph items side-by-side. These are some of the Google search updates that the company announced today at a media event celebrating its 15th birthday, and explained in more…
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Google Brings More “Now” To Search With New Quick Answers
Google is bringing more of the capabilities of Google Now to the search box and providing a range of personalized “quick answers” regardless of platform. These new search capabilities focus on “travel and logistics” use cases: reservations, flights, package tracking and…
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