Google Voice Search Coming?

Via Ken Fisher:

Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a "Voice interface for a search engine," which is described as: "A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses.

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Who’s Leads The Conversation: Mossberg or Pogue?

Who’s leading the personal-technology conversation (in terms of share of mentions in the blogosphere): WSJ’s Walt Mossberg or NYTimes’ David Pogue? It depends on the day.


 

Still, as I said in my last post, these columnists need to learn how to get more clued into the conversation.Read the rest

Wall Street Journal’s Mossberg Falling Behind In The Conversation

Walt Mossberg, the WSJ’s esteemed personal technology columnist, is falling behind in the conversation – at least the one occurring in the blogosphere. Below are relative mentions of “Mossberg” versus “Engadget” versus “Gizmodo” over the past six months (via BlogPulse, run by my company, Nielsen BuzzMetrics).Read the rest

Word Of Mouth All The Buzz At Marketing Sciences Institute

Continuing on my post on the Marketing Science Institute’s Board of Trustees Meeting and Conference, the second and final day focused on new media and word of mouth. Here’s a three part summary:

A Construct For Word Of Mouth And Social Networks

The day began with a great presentation from Dina Mayzlin of Yale University, who presented “The Management of Social Interactions.”Read the rest