Lukewarm review of Yahoo mobile search

Stephen Shankland reviewed Yahoo’s mobile voice search, which works by taking voice input and returning results onscreen (in his case on his Blackberry Pearl). He found:

• There are plenty of times when voice is a more convenient form of input than typing.
• Voice recognition was good but far from perfect.
• Editing search strings was annoyingly difficult.
• Search results themselves aren’t 100% perfect.

No big surprises there. 😀

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