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Google Home Obliterates the Amazon Echo, But It’s Got Some Work to Do

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It’s late, I’ve just plugged the Google Home voice assistant in, and I’ve got a fridge full of pumpkin and pie crusts and Thanksgiving is three weeks away. “Okay Google, how do I make a pumpkin pie?” Google Home happily answers my question, firing off a summary of the instructions as told to it by AllRecipes.com. If I could whip eggs and beat canned pumpkin in the thirty seconds it took Home to recite the recipe, I’d have had a pie. Instead, I nod, wowed that Home can answer my question with ease, but also a little dissatisfied. It’s brilliant—so close to perfection that the minor imperfection nags.

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