Google Maps: Now with Voice Search
In Google’s latest update “Search Google Maps out loud”, you can now look for places and directions in the Google Maps without even using your hands! How? Well, it actually feels like saying “Open Sesame!” from the folktale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. You can now manipulate the search engine by voice command. The instructions are simple, if you’re using Chrome web browser in the U.S. (sad to say it’s English only for now), simply click the microphone icon and speak into your computer to anything you want to search or look for. See the screenshot below to see where the microphone is found.
As per Google, using voice search can make it easier to find hard-to-spell places (Cincinnati, Massachusetts and Mississippi) or simply get directions without typing (for example, say “Directions from Los Angeles to San Francisco”). Or if you’re interested in exploring the world through the Earth layer (using the plugin), you can just say where you want to go and fly over to that location directly within your browser! Isn’t that amazing?! Here’s more, you can also use voice commands on Google.com by your Android device or on the Google app for iPhones.
As a verse from the bible verse goes, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you”, realize that GOOGLE answers it all. I myself as an SEO proponent salutes Google for this tremendous update.
