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Computers Don’t Need Keyboard: Voice Search Engines Only in 2013

by Nick Marshall

voice searchBill Gates is going to be stepping down from Microsoft in July of 2008, but before he goes he plans on making predictions on the future of computing and the Internet.  He started off his predictions at Carnegie Mellon University in-front of 1200 students where he announced that within 5 years all Internet search engines would rely on voice and touch screens rather than keyboard entry.  This begs the question; when was the last time Bill Gates actually used a search engine or browsed the Internet for that matter?  He has been out of the tech game for years sitting back in his thrown collecting massive returns off the success of Microsoft while his programmers and employees have been working their best to make Microsoft a profitable platform/OS.  In any case, how do you feel about the prediction about touch screens and voice queries taking over the Search Engine community? I think this question should be answered by the dominating force in market share for search engines, Google.

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posted on Feb 24, 2008 in microsoft windows Tags: , ,

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