That talk posted by one of the creators of Siri last week highlighted plenty of things that can still be done with search. Google's been doing a lot of those th

That talk posted by one of the creators of Siri last week highlighted plenty of things that can still be done with search. Google's been doing a lot of those things, except with text. I don't believe they've fully given up on their search service. Search in the future will be more about compiling different structured information services together in order to show as much information about a given topic as possible. For example, if I search a movie on Google that is currently playing in theaters, I get a Wikipedia article, IMDb page and showtimes for the movie. DuckDuckGo does stuff like this too and I believe that is one of the more innovative parts of their engine, apart from of course the privacy features. While the voice recognition part of Siri is damn cool, the real killer feature of that app is the ability to pick out words and context from what you're saying (or typing, as the original version did allow just typing out what you wanted to say to Siri) and use that context to perform queries against an amalgamation of services to figure out what you want. There's no question that Google still wants to "own search", but their idea of "search", in my opinion, is more about what it will become than what it is today.