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Alexa and Cortana will soon work together, allowing each to access the other
You'll soon be able to ask Alexa to "open Cortana" and vice versa....
NPR survey: Americans love their smart speakers, 42% call them ‘essential’
There may already be 20 million virtual assistants in US households....
No more ‘OK Google’: Cortana can now be the default assistant on Android
It's Cortana you'll get when you long-press on the home button....
Bing launches bots for local businesses
Bots are created automatically from data in Bing Places and will soon work with Facebook Messenger and Cortana....
How to optimize for voice search
Inspired by a recent presentation at SMX West, columnist Sherry Bonelli discusses why small businesses and local search marketers need to be...
Siri is Google’s nearest mobile search competitor [Report]
According to a survey from Fivesight Research, Siri had a larger share of mobile search than Bing or Yahoo....
Google Assistant to roll out across newer smartphones
The virtual assistant capability will soon be available on smartphones running Android 6.0 and...
Bing UK now displaying National Health Service data for GP & hospital search queries
Searching for nearby GPs and hospitals on Bing UK will surface information pulled from the country's publicly-funded national healthcare system....
Survey: Alexa the most frequently used assistant, Cortana seen as most accurate
Nearly 60 percent used voice because it was faster or easier than...
More than 30 million ‘voice-first’ devices in US homes by year end [Report]
Amazon Echo and Google Home devices have significant implications for marketers....
Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more answers and fewer search results
Making calls, searching, texting and map lookups were the most common use cases for voice....
Essential voice search strategies for 2017
Are you prepared for the rise in voice search? Columnist Sherry Bonelli discusses how voice search will impact local...
Microsoft debuts brilliant Cortana SDK strategy
The strategy potentially means that Cortana will show up on many more devices and device types than if it Microsoft had simply copied Echo....
Move over, Amazon Echo & Google Home: Here comes Microsoft Cortana
Cortana will be baked into a new smart speaker from Harman Kardon to be released next year, potentially the first of many Cortana-powered...
NORAD’s Santa Tracker counts down the days until Christmas 2016 with Bing’s help
In 1955, NORAD's number was mistakenly printed in a 1955 Sears Roebuck & Co. holiday ad. The organization has been tracking Santa ever...
Report: Microsoft responds to Amazon Echo, Google Home with “HomeHub”
Software approach would make Cortana available from the lock screen and provide other smart-home features....
Google Assistant is only an incremental advance over current voice search
High expectations made me want it to do more and be more naturally conversational. That will come....
Buying Viv, Samsung makes its “me too” virtual assistant play
Like Siri, Viv sells itself before its ambitious product vision is realized....
The 10+ biggest things to happen in PPC so far in 2016
Big text ad changes, a revival of device bidding and LinkedIn possibilities are among the announcements that hold big implications for search...
A brief evolution of Search: out of the search box and into our lives
We live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world powered by technology that changes by the nanosecond. And search is no different. Search is...
