Spoken Queries and Stressed Pronouns
The future of searches on the Web will likely involve spoken searches, as more and more people are connecting to the web with phones and Google has added voice search interfaces to its search on desktop computers.
I thought it was interesting when I ran across a patent that focused on a problem that might arise with those spoken queries and thought it was worth writing about because it’s something that we will need to become acquainted with as it becomes more commonplace.
When Amit Singhal showed off Google’s Hummingbird update, he gave a presentation that showed Google handling searches involving pronouns. It’s worth watching for the information about Hummingbird, but also about how Google is becoming more conversational and can handle things like stressed pronouns. The video is at:
I remembered the presentation about hummingbird and a more conversational Google, when I saw this spoken queries patent come out from Google, which explains some of the technology behind aspects of conversational search:
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