users will now be able to search for more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products available in Best Buy using
– Apple ‘s voice activated personal assistant feature.
Wolfram Alpha – one of the third-party services that is integrated with Siri made an announcement of the feature in a blog post.
Just in time for the holidays, we’re introducing a new functionality that provides consumers with a unique approach to shopping. By leveraging (more…)

The Google+ iOS app now offers built-in search.

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Google has tweaked its Google+ app for the iPhone to add built-in search and a couple of features previously available only on its Web site.

Users of the social network can now search for specific people or posts, just as they can on the Google+ site. A search field appears at the top of the mobile app where one can (more…)

, Google chairman Eric Schmidt admitted that the voice based service could be used to over ride Google when searching for information. His statements came in a letter in response to questions raised by a senator about Google’s monopoly in the search business.
“Even in the few weeks since the hearing [after which the questions were raised], Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and (more…)

, you probably know that you can tell it to search the web. However, by default it searches Google (if it’s still the default search engine).
 of Search Engine Land has discovered that you can also ask Siri to search on Bing and Yahoo.
So if you say Search for “iPhone hacks”, it will automatically search for iPhone Hacks on Google.
However, if you want to search for iPhone Hacks on Bing, you can simply say “Search Bing for iPhone hacks” and (more…)

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Nuance has beefed up its Dragon Go iPhone app to let you search for information across a wider array of Web sites and services.

Available for the iPhone , iPad, and iPod Touch since July, this free search-by-voice app is unique compared with the Google and Bing iOS apps. Dragon Go can find results and run commands across dozens of different Web sites, including Twitter, YouTube, (more…)

Currently, there are few ways to access Google Search on the iPhone : you can simply launch the
or use mobile Safari.
If you’re looking for a quicker option that allows you to run the search query from any  iPhone app without exiting it, then checkout
.
Wanna quick-search something on Google? Well, this is easy. Just choose an Activator method and one Alert View will pop with one text field where you input your search.
Quick Safari will (more…)

Google has just released a new version of Google Mobile App. Google has completely redesigned the app and has also given it a new name –
.
The Google Search app comes with features such as a new toolbar, quicker access to the search bar, number of improvements to features such as Google Goggles, Voice Search, Search with My Location, Gmail unread counts and more.
Google’s Alastair Tse, Software Engineer and Robert Hamilton, Product Manager (more…)

to iOS. The company has posted a number of new job openings that hint at such a possibility.
The job postings are for the positions of an iOS Speech Application Engineer, Speech Recognition Engineers and a Senior Speech Research Scientist.
In the job posting, Apple notes that the hired engineers will work with the iOS Application Frameworks team ”
“. The position requires candidates to have ”
” with popular voice recognition software like (more…)

Milan Broum, Software Engineer, Google Mobile Team announced the Google Goggles feature for the iPhone on the Google Mobile blog:
In the new version of Google Mobile App just tap on the camera button to search using Goggles. Goggles will analyze the image and highlight the objects it recognizes — just click on them to find out more.
Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is still a Labs product. It works well for things such as (more…)

Stephen Ou apparently developed iTunes Instant in less than 3 hours using Apple ’s own Search API.
iTunes Instant is exactly what I have been looking for, simple user interface with fast, real time search results (sorry I have been spoilt by Google Instant, the new search enhancement that shows results as you type).
iTunes Instant doesn't just give you suggestions or recommendations as you type in a search query, it actually gives you real-time (more…)