"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (http://wist.info/hanlon-robert-j/4285/) — i.e., search is hard, and writing brand-new voice-based search engines is even harder. #ddtb
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+Danny Sullivan's great piece on Siri and abortion clinics.
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Why Siri Can't Find Abortion Clinics & How It's Not An Apple Conspiracy
“I’m standing in front of a Planned Parenthood,” the CNN reporter says, “And Siri can’t find it when I search for abortion clinic.” No, it can’t. It’s not because Apple is pro-life. It’s because Plann…
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I heard about this on NPR and they accurately reported on the difficulties of the Siri service. What I didn't like about their report is how they claimed one of the issues is that Siri doesn't rely heavily on Google Search. I just find that incredibly hard to fathom but that might be due to my ignorance of how Siri actually works. I would have assumed that 70% of what it does is calls to a search engine or calls to a database of cached search queries. Or both.
I think that may be correct. As the article hints, search is hard, and voice search is harder. I'm not sure that a direct translation of Google Search would work for most uses of Siri. But I could be wrong.