Google to Threaten Voice Search Startups?

7:30 am on April 23, 2006 | Category: Business, Web Services

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Now that Google has been awarded a patent for its voice-activated search concept, many analysts are predicting hard times ahead for existing startups, already trying to make it in the cutting edge field.

Companies like Menlo Park-based Promptu and San Diego-based V-Enable, which have both received venture capital funding to develop their own voice search technologies, will now face the difficult task of staying ahead of the monolithic Google.

Beating Google at search seems near impossible, but it could probably be achieved if one of these startups was able to develop and patent a truly unique twist on the technology, that Google couldn’t easily copy.

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