{"id":5682,"date":"2009-04-06T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:15:52","slug":"google-voice-and-voice-based-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/google-voice-and-voice-based-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Google voice and voice based search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Google relaunched GrandCentral as Google voice a few weeks ago I&#8217;ve been thinking about <a href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/whats-google-doing-with-voice\/\">what Google voice&#8217;s true purpose and future might entail<\/a>. Many have over-hyped the launch as the death of hardware based phone systems, while others have ho-hummed Google&#8217;s efforts as half-baked.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I think that Google voice is merely a feature of greater service offering Google is trying to put together. But what that greater service offering might be is still to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>A hint as to what Google may looking to do with Google voice was uncovered in a BBC story late last week. The story, entitled &#8220;<strong>Google see voice search as core<\/strong>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7982763.stm\">speaks to Google&#8217;s ambition to dominate the mobile search space through voice activated search<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to their VP of Engineering Vic Gundota, &#8220;[Google] believes voice search is a new form of search and that it is core to [Goolge&#8217;s] business.&#8221; There&#8217;s even talks about voice enabling Google&#8217;s email product, Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely (given this information) that Google is prepping Google voice as a front end for their search and mail products, NOT preparing an assault on the hosted VoIP or Virtual PBX space.<\/p>\n<p>This of course would be good for business VoIP providers and users of Google&#8217;s services. Google can be a force in any market, but it also has not shown the ability to drive successful product offerings outside of its core of search and advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s Monday and many of you are still clearing the cobwebs, I&#8217;m leaving the comments open for your thoughts on what Google might be doing with Google voice.<\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;ve got something to say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Google relaunched GrandCentral as Google voice a few weeks ago I&#8217;ve been thinking about what Google voice&#8217;s true purpose and future might entail. Many have over-hyped the launch as the death of hardware based phone systems, while others have ho-hummed Google&#8217;s efforts as half-baked. Personally I think that Google voice is merely a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201923,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/201923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}