Query language
| Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | --Sean |
Here's a Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day where you can play along at home! In fact, given a few technological limitations of my phone, I kinda need you to.
As noted in last week's Product Pulse over at Yodel Anecdotal, we've enabled voice-activated search for certain Nokia and Blackberry phones through our oneSearch and Yahoo! Go platforms. Just mutter a query into your headset and you'll get right to the information you need, or so the theory goes. Given that I don't have either of those phone types, I'm a bit out of luck, but I'd love to hear a bit more about how well this feature works. So, a challenge to you, intrepid reader: if you have a Nokia Series 60 phone, try yelling at the oneSearch shortcut, available at m.yahoo.com/shortcut; or if you have Yahoo! Go 3.0 on your Blackberry or Nokia 40/60 Series phone, give it a little shout-out. Let me know if voice search is everything you hoped and dreamed, or if it's just another reason for passers-by to give you weird looks as you scream "Sandwich shops!" into your mouthpiece.