Georgie Kemp discussing at Women in Tech Birmingham how the search engine results page is altering to a more user-centric experience. Within my talk I outline: 1. The evolution of voice search and assistants 2. What is voice search? 3. How does voice search work? 4. The rise of new search terms emerging 5. How are global organisations adapting? 6. Why should we care? 7. How can we prepare for voice search?

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Georgie Kemp
SEO Executive

3. WORK PERSONAL
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A Venn Diagram About Georgie Kemp

4. Conversational AI
Voice search
V-commerce
Voice commerce
Long-tail keywords
Assistants

5. Conversational AI
Voice search
Voice commerce
Voice commerce
Long-tail keywords
Assistants
THE NEXT BIG THING

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7. Vs Reality ...

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my research...

9. The Data & Explicit Results

10. The evolution of voice search & assistants
What is voice search?
How does voice search work?
The rise of new search terms
How are global organisations adapting?
Why should we care?
How can we prepare?
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We’ve Gone Full Circle

12. The History Of Voice Search
1769
1980s
1987
2007
2008
2011
2019
THE FUTURE

13. Range of Voice Assistants

14. Range of Voice Assistants

15. Range of Voice Assistants
MOST RELIABLE DEVICE COMPATIBILITY
SMARTPHONE POPULARITY

16. The Decade Of Voice Search Evolution
2011
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2015
2018
2017 2019
2016

17. What is Voice Search?

18. How Does It Work?
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19. How Does Voice Search Differ From
Search Queries?
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20. How Does Voice Search Differ From
Search Queries?
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21. How Does Voice Search Differ From
Search Queries?
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22. How Does Voice Search Differ From
Search Queries?
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23. How Does Voice Search Differ From
Search Queries?
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24. Local Search and
Hyperlocality

25. Rise of various search terms
Cluster Keywords
near me 164.7K
> sale 8,632
> jobs 5,976
> repair 3,875
> store 3,641
> car 3,164
> shop 3,127
> classes 2,827
> where 2,515
> service 2,494
> shops 2,392
Cluster Keywords
near me 438.8K
> sale 27,096
> jobs 14,910
> store 9,955
> where 9,486
> repair 8,845
> buy 8,168
> used 6,857
> car 6,044
> classes 5,922
> shop 5,550

26. “Near me” search terms

27. “Near me” search terms

28. Challenges of Voice Search
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29. Benefits of Voice Search
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30. Quick Exercise

31. Exercise (10-15 mins)
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32. Why Should We Care?

33. First Movers In The Market

34. First Movers In The Market - “skills”

35. Hardware Expansion

36. What Are ‘Skills’ ?
BRANDED SKILLS
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GENERIC SKILLS
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37. How Do Skills/Actions Work?

38. The Theory

39. Awareness
Interest
Desire
Action
The Conversion Funnel - Intent
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40. “Micro-Moments”

41. How Can We Prepare?

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57. Input Output Use Cases
Voice Voice
One answer
Actions
Voice Text
Multiple answers
Device with screen
Voice Image
Shopping
Directions (local listings)
Image Image
Shopping
Ideas
Historical user data Suggestions (voice, image, text) The assistant preempts and answers a query
Content For The Right Input
- Output Combinations

58. Food For Thought

59. In Summary
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61. Thank You