“Google’s always been able to search using voice transcription, but in the post-Siri world, that’s no longer enough,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac. “With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean’s new Google Voice search, Google’s taken a page out of Siri’s book, not only trying to give precise answers to questions — for example, ‘Show me pictures of pygmy marmosets’ — but also present those answers in a clean new UI, something much more akin to Siri in the way it has been visually presented.”

Brownlee reports, “With Google being totally locked out of Siri, they really need to present their own strong competitor, but the new Google Voice only looks halfway there: a refinement on the current Google Voice system, rather than a fundamental shift in the way Google looks at providing information to people. Can it really compete?”

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MacDailyNews Take: Yes, it can compete, for the same reason the inferior Windows could compete superior Mac: Those who’ve never tried the real thing won’t grasp the differences at all and will be told by Google’s marketing that “it’s just like Siri.” Then, of course, just like the Windows tardoscenti™, they will call those of us who do understand the differences and choose the superior solution, “stupid Apple fanbois.”