Apple Buys Voice Search Startup Siri, Aiming Squarely at Google

Siri, a tiny voice search startup, confirmed that Apple acquired them today. Siri describes themselves as a kind of Internet-connected voice search option--"You can ask Siri to find a romantic place for dinner, tell you what's
playing at a local jazz club or get tickets to a movie for Saturday
night." This goes way beyond "dial Mommy." And why does Apple care about this? Because Google is amazing at it.

Apple's current voice search on the iPhone OS is near-archaic and generally...