# Looks like Google... **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [November 25, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/looks-like-google/23253 "2008-11-25T01:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/looks-like-google/23253/1 "2008-11-25T01:26:23Z")
needs to [hire more Brits](http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/google_cant_tel.html?cid=iwkPrintURL).:eek: > [@](#): > > This is a stitch. British users of Google (NSDQ: [GOOG](http://www.techweb.com/financialCenter/index.jhtml?Account=techweb&Page=QUOTE&Ticker=GOOG))'s new voice-powered search application are finding that the software isn’t quite ready for prime-time. The issue? [It can’t understand the British accent.](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/google_voice/) ---
**Author:** ![diamond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/diamond/32/859_2.png) [@diamond](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/diamond)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/looks-like-google/23253/2 "2008-11-25T09:42:42Z")
> [@Mtnjim](#): > > needs to [hire more Brits](http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/google_cant_tel.html?cid=iwkPrintURL).:eek: Harldy surprising really, I was born in the South East, my dad is from the Midlands and I live in Cornwall. I’m surprised I don’t sound like the queen doing an impression of a scotsman while inhaling helium in the back of a cement truck Not only have you got three distinct accents there, you also have three separate dialects, throw in Scouse, Geordie, Northern Ireland, Scotland and even the Welsh and you have a mixture that even those of us that live here struggle with.