A talking search engine, Speegle.

I see that there is a talking search engine being launched soon and the market it seems to be reaching blind, visually impaired and the too lazy to read search results people. I'm not sure that this has a great value as you can skim through search results much faster than having them read to you. I believe that it's great for people who have eyesight problems but most of those people who have computers have probably overcome that already with their own personal solution.

I'm not sure that this has much value unless search results are spoken by just using a title. Of course the article mentions that the search engine will have paid advertising. What a surprise! Every new search engine has an ad component. Everyone wants a piece of the pie and knows it can be lucrative. It's as if people are coming up with marginal search engines just to launch an advertising program. Another problem I found with Speegle is that it too looks like a Google page. Will all you Google wannabe search engines quit looking like Google. Be original and come up with something creative yourselves. Remember that's what Google did in the first place and who wants to look like them anyway? See for yourself.



Once again, there is no big deal in a talking search engine except for a very small percentage of people. Now the blind can be just as irritated with paid ads as the sighted world is! Lucky them.

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