Voice-controlled smartphone searches are slowly becoming all the rage, thanks to tools like Apple's Siri and Google's "enhanced" voice search. While Google's technology has been available to Android users for some time, the company recently updated its native search app for iOS with its latest developments in contextual voice queries. For iOS users, this means there's now actual competition for what you use when you want to make quick lookups without your thumbs. So which one is better: Google or Siri?
We thought we'd ask both "apps" the kind of questions we'd find ourselves debating with friends (which usually results in someone whipping out a smartphone to look up the answer). We took 20 different questions, ranging from practical to less-than-practical, to see which one gave us the most useful answers. The goal was to ask questions in a casual way—after all, both Siri and Google are supposed to be able to read into the context of your question without too many specifics.
Both apps performed reasonably well, but there were many cases in which one gave a better answer than the other. Depending on what kinds of things you might ask Siri or Google, one may be superior. Read on and discover what's best for you (and chuckle at our attempts to get answers out of the two AI bots):
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