"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
- George Bernard Shaw
I was watching an old (June 2005, I think) interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, on the Charlie Rose Show. Amongst the other points of discussion that are quite interesting, I especially liked the part where Schmidt asks Rose:
“Have you ever searched for your name on Google?”
Rose: “Yes”
Schmidt: “Did you get more than one result?”
Rose: “Yes”
Schmidt (smiling): “Well that’s a bug.”
According to this ElectricNews article, Google has received a patent for technology that could develop into a new voice-assisted search method. Users could then google for information through voice-queries instead of text-based ones.
This could build up into a really amazing feature for Google Talk. The concept of having a module that actively looks for the “google
The article mentions that the patent was filed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin along with three associates; two of the other named inventors in the patent are Alexander Franz and Brian Milch, who co-authored an academic paper, entitled “Searching the Web by Voice” back in 2002.
