Google Assistant beats Amazon Alexa, even for online shopping

Despite Amazon Alexa being more popular globally, Google Assistant has outperformed her -- and other voice assistants like Apple Siri in a test meant to understand the effectiveness of smart speakers. In the 2018 edition of "Smart Speaker IQ Test" by research-driven venture capital firm Loup Ventures, Google Assistant tested on Home smart speaker managed to answer 87.9 percent of the questions correctly -- up from 81.1 percent in 2017, The Street.com reported on Sunday. Alexa tested on Amazon Echo smart speaker) saw its accuracy improved to 72.5 percent from 63.8 percent and Microsoft Cortana tested on Harman Kardon's Invoke speaker) improved to 63.4 percent from 56.4 percent.