While one new study on voice assistants compares the quality of different providers’ answers, the other drills into Google’s data sources for 22 verticals. The post Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Hey Google, how do you become the answer people hear on their voice assistants? Contributor Karen Bone explains how to make that happen by doing your homework on featured snippets.
None of the features or changes is disruptive, but they collectively point to the fact that search evolution is accelerating.
The move comes against the backdrop of accelerating virtual assistant usage and intensifying competition.
You’ll soon be able to ask Alexa to “open Cortana” and vice versa. The post Alexa and Cortana will soon work together, allowing each to access the other appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
There may already be 20 million virtual assistants in US households.
It’s Cortana you’ll get when you long-press on the home button.
Bots are created automatically from data in Bing Places and will soon work with Facebook Messenger and Cortana. The post Bing launches bots for local businesses appeared first on Search Engine Land
According to a survey from Fivesight Research, Siri had a larger share of mobile search than Bing or Yahoo. The post Siri is Google’s nearest mobile search competitor [Report] appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
The virtual assistant capability will soon be available on smartphones running Android 6.0 and 7.0.