First launched as part of the Jelly Bean update, Google Now serves as the personal assistant for the Android platform, a role filled in iOS by the Siri application. Google has launched its Now predictive search platform for Apple's iOS.
According to reports, Apple had been interesting in acquiring with Wavii to integrate it with its Siri division, thereby forcing Google's hand. Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million.
Apple records and keeps users' Siri queries for up to 2 years – Los Angeles TimesData is anonymized after six months, but Apple keeps the data for product testing and improvement purposes for another 18 months.
Apple and Yahoo said to be in talks for deeper iPhone partnership – Los Angeles TimesYahoo wants to open up more sports and news content to Siri on iPhones and iPads. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko.
Think about iPhone's Siri or Android's Google Now. Rankings were easier to attain, competition was lower, and it was comparatively easier to optimize for pages that targeted such keywords. It's been about six years since long-tail keywords became a...
Increasingly, people are finding things, getting directions, and connecting with the wisdom of the Internet via Siri and other apps on their smartphones. Siri practically assumes you’re looking for local things.
During that month, as could have been guessed, apple.com was allocating almost 14 percent of their budget to the keyword “iphone 5” while also bidding on words such as “itunes” (which seemingly generated the most traffic of all), “ipod”, and “siri”.
Announced in August, and already available on smartphones running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google's updated voice search application looks set to take on Apple's Siri. Google's advanced voice search capability is now available on iOS in an update to...
If you haven't noticed them already, Google really want you to notice their freebase results which makes the search engine a bit more like Wolfram Alpha and Siri. Funny Flirting with Siri; The Apple of My iPhone
The outcome will be a continuation of this current process until Google is happy that they have a link graph clear enough for them to adequately map relevance and associations better so they can compete with the likes of the Wolfram/Apple...
Seemingly, searches for Apple increased greatly upon the release of the iPhone 4s in October of 2011, perhaps due to this being the first iPhone to include Siri. Apple, on the other hand, doesn't bid on their own keyword but rather focuses on...
Siri and Wolfram Alpha are the closest things we currently have to the idealized concept of search agents currently, however 'apps' are truly the forerunners of this concept - when Steve Jobs famously said, "When you look at ads on a phone, it's...
But it too is threatened in its ability to satisfy the growing, personalized “concierge”-type search heralded by Siri, which is why, like its competition, Google is looking at fascinating other ways of satisfying the human need for information.
Other iOS6 highlights include the Passbook app for virtual loyalty card organization, Siri enhancements, shared photo libraries and iCloud tabs for shared Safari browser tabs between devices. As hotly anticipated, earlier this week Apple pulled the...
Apple’s Siri has a bit of a head start when it comes to creating usable interfaces and platforms that place semantic data at its heart because it does not have a muddied and artificial link graph to contend with.
Google's Motorola Mobility division has filed a patent infringement claim against Apple over the Siri voice control and location-based services used on iPhones and iPads. Motorola is reportedly claiming that Apple devices, including the iPhone and...
People ask for more and more, think Siri, so if Google doesn't provide that info, everyone's going to go to another search engine that does. Cutts joined Incisive Media Global VP Mike Grehan for a discussion on Panda, Penguin, social signals...
Bad news for Apple in Q2 contributed to their slip from the leading position, including their implication in a lawsuit alleging e-book price fixing and investment bank Piper Jaffray’s lackluster grade for Siri.
As well as the news that its voice dictation now works offline, Google has enhanced Android's onboard voice search controls, enabling users to click on the microphone to ask a question before being told the response by a Siri-like voice.
From the beginning, you can see that Wolfram|Alpha is neat, clean, and gets straight to the point which is also why it’s the search engine behind Siri. Recently, PCWorld had a mobile search face off between the search apps on Android, so it’s only...
