Comparing Google Assistant on Pixel to Apple Siri on iPhone 7
Watch YouTube creator Marques Brownlee have Google and Apple battle it out over their smartphone voice assistants.
Barry Schwartz on October 27, 2016 at 8:27 am | Reading time: 1 minute
YouTube star Marques Brownlee did a Google Assistant versus Apple Siri contest in one of his latest videos. He has the new Google Pixel phone and the new iPhone 7; the Pixel was running Android 7.1, and the iPhone 7 was running 10.0.3.
He compared basic questions, like “What is the weather?,” to more complex questions using conversational search. To my surprise, Apple Siri wasn’t all that bad in some of the conversational questions — but Google was indeed better.
Marques called it the “battle of the smartphone voice assistants,” and it was done pretty well. Here is that video:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.