Google Voice mail searchable online, amusing
If you haven’t already heard about Google Voice, the service promises one number for all your needs, and includes a voice message service, which can transcribe audio message into text. An interesting, and probably unwanted side effect of this is that a small number of these can be found in a google search…
site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/*
Into a standard google search. Some of the messages contain the phone number of the sender, and since Google also transcribes the voice mails to a readable form, when the caller leaves a new reply number, it’s also transcribed.
A couple of faves of mine are a short message where some guy leaves a message telling someone to go fuck themselves, but the Google transcribing omits the word ‘fuck’ because it’s naughty I guess. There’s also a detailed message from a missionary in Africa discusses his success in converting a local tribal elder to Christianity.
Apparently this is a feature of Google Voice if you decide to make your voice mail public…
Since the initial idea behind posting a voicemail, was precisely to share it with others, we did not restrict crawling of those messages that users post on the web, but we can certainly understand that users would want to make them public on their sites but not necessarily searchable directly outside of their own website. We made a change to prevent those to be crawled so only the site owner can decide to index them. [via BGR]
Even so, I’m not sure I LIKE the idea of Google archiving my voice messages. Since the service is only available in the US at the moment, I’m wondering if the caller is alerted to when they’re leaving a Google voicemail instead of a voicemail on an answering machine/mobile phone.
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