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I use Google Voice for a second phone number on my iPhone and yeah, it worries me how little attention it seems to get.

It took Google forever to update it to match the iOS 7 "flat" look. And to this day it's missing a pretty obvious feature: search! Yes, there is no search functionality in the Google Voice app on iPhone. Apple's Messages and Facebook Messenger both have it.

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There is no search functionality in the hangouts app either. What other messaging apps lack the ability to search conversations? Google's own SMS messenger app implements search beautifully.

Well. Maybe it is not the same for you, but hangout messages get archived as emails in gmail. so search gmail maybe?

Also no API. Google Voice has been ignored for so long. Probably because it is not easy to advertise on or get data from

They definitely use the voicemail transcription feature as training/test data for their NLP stuff

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