There is a report from Strategy Analytics that says that Apple has shipped about 600,000 HomePods during Q1. In the same report, Amazon Alexa devices were placed around 4 million for the same period. Google Home sales are around 2.5 million. Of course, these numbers aren’t completely accurate, as they indicate the relative size of each company’s […]
As time goes on, Google Assistant is going to become more transactional on smartphones, smartwatches and Google Home. There are still a number of marketers who are skeptical about the mainstream potential of virtual assistants as a search alternative, or as a commercial platform. But in the end, it seems that this is going to […]
In an announcement made by Google, it has updated its recipe structured data documentation, which is meant to help webmasters to improve the visibility of their recipes in Google Search and on Google Assistant, including Google Homes devices. Google said, “The updated structured data properties provide users with more information about your recipe, resulting in higher quality traffic to your […]
When you ask Google Home or Google Assistant what the weather is, Google will usually tell you. But there are times when even Google needs help. At times when Google’s weather services isn’t working, Google may suggest the user try a Google Assistant app from a third-party service, such as AccuWeather. This happened the other day […]
An update to the Google Assistant has been released that makes entertainment content more accessible to voice control. The announcement was made on February 1, and it allows users to set alarms to play a favorite song, playlist or radio station instead of a noisy, unpleasant alarm sound. It’s possible to invoke this by speaking, “Hey Google, set […]
According to brand new survey-based data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), Google Home managed to gain ground on Amazon’s Alexa device universe. CIRP says that Google Home accounted for about 40 percent of the units sold in the US during the holiday period. The CIRP analysis argues that the current smart speaker market share in […]
On the morning of January 5 in a blog post, Google said, “The [Google] Assistant is now available on more than 400 million devices.” To Google, these “devices includes Android smartphones, tablets, TVs, headphones, and Google Home smart speakers. By looking at the post, we don’t know how many Google Home, Mini and Max speakers were sold in 2017. Despite […]
According to a report on CNBC, Amazon is in talks with a number of large consumer product companies about advertising and sponsorship opportunities through Alexa and voice search. According to the report: The e-tailer has been in talks with several companies about letting them promote products on the best-selling Echo devices, which are powered by the Alexa […]
On the Google Research blog, Google has published the search quality raters guidelines, contractors guidelines to evaluate Google’s search results, specifically pertaining to the Google Assistant and voice search results. It has it’s similarity to the web search quality guidelines, the difference is that there isn’t any screen to look at when evaluating such results. Rather, you’re evaluating the […]
In an announcement by Google, there has been a nationwide expansion of its Google Express relationship with Target. Those users who are in the Continental US can now buy from Target through the Google Assistant and receive Google Express delivery. The voice-commerce relationship extends to Google Home devices. These features and capabilities are quite similar to those that was announced […]