Google Maps — Now With Voice Search
Aug 26, 2011 at 6:03pm ET by Greg Sterling
Voice search all began for Google several years ago with the now-shuttered, free directory assistance service GOOG-411. After the underlying infrastructure had matured Google introduced it on Android devices and in its iPhone apps. More recently, in July, the company put the same voice search capability on Google.com on the Chrome browser for the PC.While voice search on mobile devices is widely used it’s not clear whether many people are yet searching with voice on their PCs. (Insert Star Trek joke here.) In October 2010 Chitika found that voice search was responsible for 7 percent of Google mobile queries on the iPhone and 25 percent on Android devices.
