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It’s Yahoo!, not Google which will deliver us a voice mobile web searching. Anyway, the silicon valley giant won’t do it alone. They have Vlingo in their shoulders.

Vlingo, a start-up based in Dunster, Cambridge, Mass. will let people with Blackberry Curves, Pearls, or 8800 series (not Nokia) to do something like this:

Send a friend a text message without typing. Just speak, verify and send. Or find stuff. Say, for example, “pizza places in Pittsburgh.” Your phone figures out what you want, finds it and shows you how to get there. No tapping, no thumbs, just good old speaking.

Oh yeah that’s cool. Is this a future? Perhaps, but however, “it is still under the superiority of human recognition”, said Scott Jones the chief executive of ChaCha (the human empowered web search engine).

Hmmm, I believe Scott might be true here. Anyway, sometimes human will face their own weakness someday. Unlike both machine or algorithm. Remember the battle between Yahoo! human-powered engine with Google Page Rank crawler-powered. We all know who is the winner.

If this Vlingo’s technology had succeeded in English language, I am sure they also should try to add another language like this:

“Aku nak makan Rendang di Padang.”

Note:

That is a sentence in Bahasa Melayu for; “I want to eat Rendang in Padang”. Hey, if Vlingo is not like Google in term of scalability, I bet their servers will crash to give user that answer.

Yummy … this is the image of the hot-delicious Rendang

Source: Mercury News

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