Google Acquires Mobile Typing Startup BlindType

Google Inc. bought BlindType Inc., a startup focused on making typing more accurate on mobile devices. BlindType is a startup company that designs an eponymous virtual keyboard that can intuit what the user is intending to type. BlindType is an impressive technology with you can expect to touch type with fewer mistakes using its interface. The BlindType technology is designed to work on Google Android and Apple iOS platform.
However, Google's acquisition of BlindType confirms its plan to improve touchscreen based typing functionality in Android operating system running devices. BlindType uses software to correct “sloppy” typing, the San Francisco-based company said on its website. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. 

“We’re excited to welcome the BlindType team to Google,” said Aaron Zamost, a spokesman for Google, which runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. “With their help, we hope to make touch typing on your mobile device easier and faster than ever.” 


New BlindType technology mainly intends to make the touch typing easier, faster and constantly adjusts to the user's "perceived" keyboard as well as typing style. Thankfully, there are no gestures or shortcuts to learn to use it. Users need to constantly concentrate on the touchscreen keyboard for typing correct due to lack of tactile feedback. There are no buttons! However, BlindType promises to eliminate that need to constantly focus while you type text.


BlindType compensates for typographical errors in realtime by estimating the intended key-presses on a virtual keyboard, simply with distances between two points on the screen – in effect, guessing what the user wanted to type. While iOS and Android versions of the application are already available, you can be sure that Google will look to integrate this technology from the ground up on their mobile operating system, and probably leverage the acquisition by stopping iOS development of the application.