[shadowgovt]

And they are welcome to not use GOOG-411, Google's voice recognition, or any of the applications derived thereof.

Me personally, I'd been waiting for the breakthrough that Google hit upon to get reliable voice recognition for a couple of decades.

[robin_reala]

Uh, if they don’t use it then the cost/benefit ratio is even more balanced over to the cost. The point is that the cost was never consulted in the first place when the benefit was sought.

[joshuamorton]

What is the cost to someone who never used GOOG-411?

[wizzwizz4]

But whose data was gathered and mined for the purposes of its development.

[joshuamorton]

I'm responding to the statement that GP made which was that to someone who never used GOOG-411, the cost-benefit ratio is further into the cost category [compared to someone who did use GOOG-411]. This would imply that there is some cost to someone who never used the service, hence my question.

[shadowgovt]

Basically zero.