Wednesday, March 14. 2007

Your Voice is Worth 800 Million

Om has an interesting take on why TellMe may be worth 800 million - voice input additions to Local Mobile Search. Surely that's not the only use for this technology as Om points out, but...

The real reason will be Microsoft Mobile and non-PC devices where Tellme’s voice interface and back-end server technologies can come in quite handy.

“The leading edge battleground between us and Google in local search really will come on the phone,” Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told the WSJ back in May 2006.

That is the money quote.

Posted by Jonathan Spinney in LBS at 11:06 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

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Context: Microsoft will acquire TellMe. http://www.tellme.com/microsoft/release.html

"Om" is blogger Om Malik.

#1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2007-03-14 11:59 (Reply)

I think people are confusing mobile search (which is actually directory assistance for the most part) with google type search on PC. They are completely different and neither MS nor Tellme has technoligies to deal with the openness of the type of search used to with google on the PC.

#2 aravind on 2007-03-15 19:22 (Reply)

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