Google Adds 19 Animal Sounds To Search
What sound does a pig make? Ask Google and it will actually let you listen to the answer.
Barry Schwartz on March 4, 2016 at 9:01 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google has recently added the ability to search for [animal noises] on desktop and mobile search. You can listen to the sounds of 19 different animals, including monkey, cat, cow, duck, elephant, horse, lion, moose, owl, pig, raccoon, rooster, sheep, tiger, turkey, turtle, bowhead whale, humpback whale, wolf and zebra.
Google will bring up a carousel of animals with a speaker icon next to each one. When you click on the speaker icon, you can listen to the sounds/noises that specific animal makes.
Here are pictures of it in action:
The feature reportedly went live sometime in mid-January, but I didn’t see much coverage of it until I spotted it on Google+ yesterday.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.