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21 January 2004

Speak and Ye Shall Find - Voice-Activated Search Arrives

It's not often you see true innovation in the search industry. Most of the "new" technology flaunted by search firms is simply old search technology, borrowed, recycled, trussed up with a lick of paint and paraded around as new.

Well today we received a press release from a company called SearchLimo, who have developed a truly new technology - at least new to me - a Voice-Activated Search Engine.

According to the site, you just "speak or spell your keyword(s), use phrases or sentences and let MyChauffeur (James or Jamie) drive you to the web's best destinations".

The program recognizes pneumonics of the English language and translates them into "actual" words for the compiler to recognize. The compiler then scours SearchLimo's database and meta crawls the web in search of the keyword(s) requested.

The technology allows users to search the web by simply speaking into their PC microphones and letting SearchLimo's meta engines locate the relevant search results, just as the user would expect from a standard "type and search" engine.

The company has integrated the software with Netscape's browser and plans to officially launch the VG-SSE"™ (Voice Generated Super Search Engine) on February 15th.

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