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The company's vice president of engineering made the comments during a wide-ranging discussion at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. "We believe voice search is a new form of search and that it is core to our business," said Vic Gundotra. SearchEngineLand editor Greg Sterling agreed: "If done right, it could be a valuable strategic feature for Google." Mr Gundotra acknowledged to the audience that "voice recognition in the early days was a nice trick but not very usable". There were early complaints that Google's offering could not understand accents other than American and that results were often garbled. Full story