Thursday, September 19, 2013

New interface for searches on mobile phones by Google

Ben Gomes, the India-bred techie who oversees Google's handling of 100 billion searches a month, believes a new voice-based interface is needed for the next frontier of search centred round mobile phones and tablet computers.
"Now search is becoming mobile - on phones and tablets. The challenge is that it is on a small screen, so it's hard to type. The opportunity is that it's got a really good microphone and a touch screen," he said.
"It can enable a new kind of interface. So we realised we want to build an interface that was much like the way you talk to some person and ask a question," Gomes said.

Source url :  http://www.indianexpress.com/news/google-focusses-on-new-interface-for-searches-on-mobile-phones/1171356/?wc=EWJvGgpmBQVHGxVx