WebMD just launched an Alexa skill that promises to answer health and medical questions. But it seems there’s a lot it doesn’t know. The...

Amazon Echo, housing the Alexa intelligent agent In the past year or so, a new marketing channel has emerged around bots and intelligent...

Fresh off its recent voice search study, Stone Temple Consulting compared the relative accuracy of Google Home and Amazon Echo. The SEO...

A year after Amazon’s Echo starred in a Super Bowl commercial, Google Home gets its turn in the spotlight with a 60-second ad that will...

You’ve seen the numbers: Amazon sold an estimated 3+ million Echo devices just during the 2016 holiday shopping season, marking a 60...

Investment research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has estimated that there are now 8.2 million US homes with Amazon...

Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana. These intelligent agents, and their more limited bot cousins, have...

dennizn / Shutterstock.com There’s one thing that remains true about SEO: it’s always changing. One of the big changes that we’re...

The family of Amazon Alexa devices “Alexa, order ketchup.” “Okay. Would you like me to re-order Heinz –“ “Sure.” “– or would you like to...

Amazon’s Alexa now has more than 7,000 “skills” (voice apps), according to a presentation given at CES (the Computer Electronics Show) by...

Traditional search has us conditioned to speak like cavemen: choppy sentences, verbs optional. But that’s all starting to change with the...

On the first full day that we had a Google Home in our house, we interacted with it 473 times over the course of the day. Four hundred of...

Google’s new Google Home assistant is out this week. It’s a rival to Amazon Echo. Both are voice-activated. So could they talk to each...

Google Home is a powerful new search and discovery device. I like it, though I didn’t find it in normal usage to be dramatically better...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai presenting the Google Assistant on Tuesday Google’s announcements on Tuesday — describing how the new Pixel...

Google unveiled its new Google Pixel phone today and began taking orders for its previously announced Google Home hands-free home...

The new Google Home Google wants to become the genie for your home. Today, the tech giant announced Google Home at the opening of its...

Today at Google I/O, Google’s annual developers conference, Google announced its new Home voice-activated household assistant, a new Allo...

Confirming earlier reports, The New York Times says that Google will introduce a voice-controlled digital assistant device for the home...

The Information published an article this week cataloging problems at Alphabet’s Nest division. The company was acquired in 2014 for...