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Why is Google Voice Giving Back Different Suggestions?

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So Google launched Google Voice Search last week at their Inside Search Event. Wowza. Well, that is what many people think if you check Twitter. You can now talk to Google! And it will give you back results! At least, it works sometimes, like this Tweeter says it: “You click it and say what you want to google. It works sometimes.”

The feature has been taken from the mobile search, where you already could ‘talk to Google’ for a while. Last night I started playing with the feature on my computer. It turns out it is still a bit buggy sometimes, and I don’t mean because sometimes it just doesn’t understand what you are saying. It seems as if Google is using a different Google Suggest database for voice search, because in most cases the “suggestions” I got from Google were totally different from those I get when I do a textual search. (more…)