GOOG-411 arrives in Canada
Search engine giant Google has launched their GOOG-411 service in Canada.
The service was till now available only in the US market.
GOOG-411 is Google’s voice-recognition local search phone service which enables anyone with a telephone to dial in and ask for nearby destinations.
The service responds to questions asked by the user using speech recognition technology.
It is being provided for free in both the countries.
A posting on the Google Blog spoke about this new service: “Although English is spoken in both the US and Canada, there are enough differences between the way it’s spoken in the two countries that we engineered GOOG-411 especially for Canadian English. We incorporated some Canadianisms such as “eh,” “Traw-na,” “Cal-gry,” and, of course, “aboot.”
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June 24th, 2008 at 4:59 am
I’m Canadian and that hurts us Google.
eh – is a dummies termination, sort of like silly valley girl talk by under-educated folk”
funny thing: Canadian average education levels are higher than US and Google/Microsoft hire staff constantly from Waterloo University.
Traw-na – again dummies talk that way but most will use tur-ON-toe or tur-ON-oh.
Cal-gry – this is the same as above but aboot?
I’ve worked on a nation-wide bank help desk for years and never heard this from anyone except Scottish folk.
What I’d like to know is this: People from MA and NY say “cah” (that’s those 4-wheeled things that Canada provides 25% of your gas for..) Now that’s just plain.. well, you know.. under educated. ;-)
We’re still your neighbour, so we have to get along.. like it or lump it -bye4new!(Scottish eh?)
January 16th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Seems that texting is the trend these days. It’s cheaper and hassle free. Just heard about ASK411(275411) which provides DA information for free this month. I’m getting the hang of it. Since i’ve learn about this i started greeting my friends through text. Try it. You’ll get use to it.