Yahoo Audio Search - Google To Follow Suit

You know it's interesting how information has an intrinsic desire to be free. Kind of like the same way life is described in Jurasic Park. Life finds a way to survive, as does information. I'm currently working in a completely different industry than search engine marketing, yet the search engine industry information always finds it's way to me. I just got back from SpeechTek in NYC early this morning and found out some really interesting information. I didn't want to post anything about it and then today I read a post on Om Malik's blog regarding audio search tool that Google and MSN don't currently have. Well, Google may not have it yet but I know they're going after certain ASR (automated speech response) or should I call it Automated Search Response technology. Not only has Google hired on a couple key linguistics folks but they're stalking at least one audio search company based in Atlanta, Georgia and trying to acquire speech recognition technology from another. That company is Reader Comments... Jason Dowdell is a technology entrepreneur and operates the