  Voice search is becoming a popular mode for interacting with search engines.
As a result, research has gone into building better voice transcription
engines, interfaces, and search engines that better handle inherent verbosity
of queries. However, when one considers its use by non- native speakers of
English, another aspect that becomes important is the formulation of the query
by users. In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary study that we
conducted with non-native English speakers who formulate queries for given
retrieval tasks. Our results show that the current search engines are sensitive
in their rankings to the query formulation, and thus highlights the need for
developing more robust ranking methods.
