News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo. Parent comment

Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by throwaway2016a on Sunday January 06, 2019 @09:51PM (#18842382)
I think the answer is simply Google the search engine. Google has a huge corpus of semantic data that it gathered from both structured and unstructured data from around the web. Think about how many times you search Google and get a One Box result.

However, I have to disagree to a certain extent. Having both Google (on my phone) and Alexa in my house, overall I have been extremely happy with Alexa. I think it being "so much worse" is very subjective.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by mrep on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:06AM (#18842922)
This is definitely part of it. Alexa only answers my most basic questions. Google answered me a fact that it was able to parse out from youtube and then pre-labeling the answer with "According to youtube..." That was mind blowing.
[ Parent | on HN ]