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Google Home Is 6 Times More Likely To Answer Your Question Than Amazon Alexa (adweek.com)
According to software developed by New York-based 360i, Google Home is six times more likely to answer your question than Amazon Alexa -- its biggest competitor. Adweek reports: It's relatively surprising, considering that RBC Capital Markets projects Alexa will drive $10 billion of revenue to Amazon by 2020 -- not to mention the artificial intelligence-based system currently owns 70 percent of the voice market. 360i's proprietary software asked both devices 3,000 questions to come to the figure. While Amazon Alexa has shown considerable strength in retail search during the agency's research, Google won the day thanks to its unmatched search abilities.
Hey Google, how do I make Alexa better than you?
1. Is google going to randomly kill it off
2. Why can't it do e-books yet
3. Why isn't this on desktop computers yet?
4. Where's the cheap competitor for the dot?
she'd better start sucking customer's dicks, pronto!
They have the equal chance of 0 to answer my questions at my place
Why are people actually buying stuff like that google box and amazons Alexia?
I don't get it.
Some people call me old fashioned but, well I'm more surprised that people are actually buying/using that stuff than that I consider myself old fashioned.
I never will have need for such a thing, unless I lie in bed paralyzed from my spine down.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
But Google is also 6 times creepier than Amazon, and creepiness matters more in how I choose my friends than how much they know.
Amazon gives the gov't your reading list just like Google gives the gov't your search history...
Sales and revenue on this type of garbage is driven by marketing. Amazon has been marketing the heck out of Alexa/Echo, but Google hasn't as much. I have tried Alexa and it is completely useless. Google Home probably is too, but maybe less useless.
I use it all the time. I use it for timers, and for turning some lights on and off. Sometimes I play music through it, but not often. I also ask for the weather. I don't use it for anything else.
The timers suck. I can't say 'Set a reminder at X for Blah" such that it'll tell me "Blah" at X time. It only chimes. It makes an incredibly annoying distinction between an alarm and a timer such that you can tell it to cancel all alarms; it says 'you have no alarms' and then five minutes alter your TIMER goes off, and it bleeps.
The music stuff sucks. It constantly tries to upsell you on the service. It constantly gets the wrong music and doesn't LEARN from what you say. So you can say you want My Way, by the Sex Pistols 20 times, and when you just ask for My Way without specifying, it's gonna give you Seth Macfarland. And it's only gonna play 10 seconds and then tell you to subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited. If the title of your song is in not in English, woe unto you -- Alexa will never find it, no matter how carefully you feed it details. Try asking for anything by Sonora Dinamita.
The Echo is, simply put, a piece of shit. And not just plain shit, it's offensive up-selling shit.
But I STILL use it, because a voice interface is so dang convenient. (The weather function is actually FINE.)
Echo isn't the market leader because it answers your questions well, it's the leader because people have them because they've been on the market more than a year already. Same with Siri -- It also sucks monkeys, though at least it doesn’t try to upsell you. People have Siri because they have iPhones. Nobody would want Siri if there could be competition in that space.
These products are here because the voice area is so obviously something we want, and all the initial products are dropping the ball hilariously. When someone comes out with an actually good product, all this early stuff is going in the dumpster overnight.
I'm hoping Hound or some other small company will get it right and be bought by Google and shoved everywhere. If Amazon buys 'em they'll convert it into a unusable up-selling tool again.
Neither will ever be answering my questions!
Does Alexa spy on you as well as Google does?
Why doesn't Windows have an Applications folder like mac? So much easier and more secure than stupid program files....
"Alexa, ask Google this".
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I asked a friends Alexa at christmas "Alexa, is amazon a tax avoider?" the reply i got was "i don't understand the question" (or similar)
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
I just pulled out my iPhone, pressed a button, and said, "What time does The Fish Company close?"
If you had an Android, you could have just said "OK Google, What time does The Fish Company close?". You had to press an extra button. Sad!
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Google, google, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?
factor being reported, it is our experience that Google beats the pants of Alexa for most things. Still, we use Alexa for music (with sometimes hilariously stupid results) and simple timers. The family often will pose questions to Alexa and when she can't answer, Google home is usually able to provide an answer phrased exactly the same way.
lol o wait, we knew this already.