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Re:Bing Says 25% of All Searches Are Voice Searches by Kurtz79 on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:39AM (#11666738)
What would be a reliable source of web searches market share ?

A few (ironically, Google) searches yielded wildly different results, reporting anything from 3% to 20% as Bing's share.

Regardless, even 1% would be a decent sample, I think, considering we are still talking about huge numbers, and people with iPhones or Android devices using Google as their main search would have similar usage patterns.

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Re:Bing Says 25% of All Searches Are Voice Searches by Ologn on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:05AM (#11666844)
I'm an Android programmer and talk to Android users. I meet some people who use voice on apps a lot.

I myself try to use voice with Google Maps when I'm driving in a car. I don't want to fiddle with the onscreen keyboard while driving. It's success varies, currently it understands some place names better than others. But it keeps improving too.

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