{"id":197,"date":"2007-08-20T11:07:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/the-many-voices-of-goog411-dude\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:34:48","slug":"the-many-voices-of-goog411-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/the-many-voices-of-goog411-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"The many voices of Goog411, dude!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audio recording of the many voices of Goog411<\/a>Some seem to adore Goog-411 (like the folks at the Goog-411 Group<\/a>), Google’s voice activated directory service that uses Map data and some like Chris<\/a> from NaturalSearch panned it<\/a>.I fall in between those extremes and while I understand Chris’s criticism about Goog-411’s failings I use the service on a somewhat regular basis despite its annoyances:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2It completes my calls thus offering hands free phone use<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2It’s free<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2It works more than 80% of the time<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2It’s fun<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It is fascinating to me to see Google’s Map data set being pushed out over a totally distinct network in a useful fashion although I doubt that the public will start using voice activated directory assistance for category searches in any great volume over the near term. <\/p>\n

My usage habits are very entrenched in the city, business name model of directory assistance and I assume most consumers are as well. I suppose there is a certain cool factor that the service has and that the folks at the Goog-411 group go gaga over.Google seems to be making a bid to cater to that cool factor. They have recently changed their intro to the service which announces Goog-411 from a single male voice to a large variety of voices. <\/p>\n

Some of them can be heard in the following compendium of voices recently recorded from dialing in to Goog 411:Audio recording of the many voices of Goog411 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audio recording of the many voices of Goog411Some seem to adore Goog-411 (like the folks at the Goog-411 Group), Google’s voice activated directory service that uses Map data and some like Chris from NaturalSearch panned it.I fall in between those extremes and while I understand Chris’s criticism about Goog-411’s failings I use the service on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-google-products-that-have-joined-the-google-graveyard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22475,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/22475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}