I've been trying Google voice on my Droid and it works pretty good for short keywords like "hotel" "taxi" etc etc. It is hit and miss with complex words and phrases. I get "best relations" results when I just tried "Best relishes" even after 4 tries. But then I tried Best relish and it got it first try.
I use it for long phrases on my phone like "how to make the best pickle relish". For this phrase it got it exactly right. For others it totally fails. And for some searches it doesn't get the phrase completely correct but it is close enough to get good results. The results were much better than I expected.
For my shopping list app I use voice most of the time to add items out of convenience. For this function the voice recog has been very accurate with only a couple mistakes out of 50 or so entries.
I look forward to better voice recognition to expand my use for all aspects of text creation. Obviously there are exceptions like if you were in a store looking up information on "hemorrhoid creams" you may want to type that in instead. But from what I can see there will come a day soon where most searches will be done by voice.
You can use it for domain addresses too but you still need an address to go to. There are many companies with the same name with very different products and similar names with similar products so a distinct address is necessary to get the right one. So far domains work pretty darn good for that. Voice recognition is just another way of using the domain address and it is not a replacement for it.
I've been playing with my Google Nexus voice search as well.
You provided a very good assessment but something I want to add.
Now, more than ever, it is location, location, location. As Draggar pointed out, dog training...how, what, who? The
WHERE feature is the first equation solved.
Using the phones location gps or whatever network I happen to be on at the time, if I say
Dog Training in North Carolina and Draggar says
Dog Training in Florida, we will both NOT GET the same results but will get results based on where we are at.
So location is paramount. As for the particulars, that may take another voice or manual search.
But lets say you do not do a manual search...lets stick with voice.
The results returned ARE NOT going to be affected by the domain extension. Whoever ranks highest, well they rank highest and will be displayed accordingly based on ranking.
That is another reason why I think metatagging is important and (someone will correct me if I am wrong) there has now been a complete 360 coming back to meta-tagging importance?
The internet is evolving right before our eyes.
This title of the thread is where domains will be in 5 years.
In 10 years, don't be surprised if it is LANGUAGE AND LOCATION BASED putting even more emphasis of foreign languages and the spoken word.
This brings IDN and ccTLD's even more so into the equation.
Still, there will need to be a PLACE (address) that all these commands land on.
So, web sites will NOT go away.
But I think there will be a huge drop in preference of extension over another as it will all be based on relevant content.
No matter what extension you own, if it is parked then it will not be relevant and may not even register in the results.
Lets face it, browsers and search engines are getting smarter at knowing WHAT people want and by doing so, can equally measure what people DO NOT want in their searches.
Already we see a couple of start ups that is able to recognize a parked page or adsense ladden page and block it from the results.
