Microsoft: Cortana
Redesigned iOS Cortana app looks better but adoption challenges remain
Because of a 'structural' disadvantage vs. rivals, Cortana will likely need something more radical to break through....
Cortana loses its chief after only 8 months
Microsoft is an AI leader but Cortana lags its rivals in distribution....
Bing’s ‘Quest for Intelligent Search’ at SMX East
Search has come a long way and, in a keynote talk Wednesday, Christi Olson and Frederic Dubut painted a picture of what the future might hold....
Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant
While one new study on voice assistants compares the quality of different providers' answers, the other drills into Google's data sources for 22...
Want to target position 0? Here’s what you need to make that happen
Hey Google, how do you become the answer people hear on their voice assistants? Contributor Karen Bone explains how to make that happen by doing...
Bing announces AI-powered new ‘intelligent search’ features
None of the features or changes is disruptive, but they collectively point to the fact that search evolution is accelerating....
Google bringing the Assistant to tablets and Lollipop Android phones
The move comes against the backdrop of accelerating virtual assistant usage and intensifying competition....
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...
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...