[Blake] went through the hassle of getting an Amazon Alexa compatible WiFi outlet to work with Google Assistant. It’s a bit of a roundabout way of doing things, but it works. A TP-Link HS-105 ...

For starters, Google Assistant and Alexa are owned and operated by two completely different companies. Alexa is owned by Amazon and Google Assistant is owned by Google (no surprises there).

Amazon Alexa is flexible and compatible with many smart home devices but can be clunky and has no native smartphone support.

Between the "smart" assistant's 2014 introduction and late 2022, Amazon's Worldwide Digital unit lost over $10 billion on ...

With giants like Apple and Google bringing their own AI models to the fore, we're also seeing purpose-built AI companies like ...

I've tested nearly every smart speaker and smart display from Amazon and Google in my home, and they are similar, yet vastly ...

But it's the rivalry between Amazon and Google that is particularly noticeable. "By day four of CES we will be reporting when a gadget doesn't have Alexa or Google Assistant," quipped Dieter Bohn ...

Google Assistant currently works like Amazon Alexa and Apple's Siri, with natural language processing technology that creates ...

Amazon Alexa was originally launched alongside the very first Amazon Echo speaker back on November 6, 2014 – but as the voice ...

The Alexa Skills revolution that wasn’t The Amazon Echo graveyard Alexa, thank you for the music Fast-forward to today, and there are over 40 million Echo smart speakers in US households, with Alexa ...

You just need to ask. Smart speakers come with one of three voice assistants built-in — Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or Apple's Siri. When you start to build your smart home, you'll need to ...

Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about streaming and home audio. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has ...