Yesterday at the Google I/O conference, the search giant announced a lot of things, including a Siri competitor called Google Now. Yes, similar to Siri, Google Now talks to you, answers your questions and stalks you to learn more about you. Now, obviously someone had to do a comparison of both the voice assistants, or the world would just be a less interesting place.
The guys from TechnoBuffalo used an iPhone 4S on iOS 6 beta 2 and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus on the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to conduct the comparison. We all know that Siri is still in beta and Google Now isn’t available for all devices yet. It is currently only part of the latest Jelly Bean build and will be available on phones that support it. In the video, the narrator asks a hoard of simple questions and the outcome is quite shocking:
Google Now, as you just saw, performs a lot better than Siri and the voice is indeed much more human like. It replies faster, searches the web faster and understands pretty well too. And this is only the beginning! The iPhone 4S’ major selling point has been no doubt Siri, but what happens now? Well, improvements to Siri are due with the iOS 6 update, so we have to wait and watch what Apple does. Would you consider going to the other side? And what’s your thoughts on this video? Let us know in the comments section.
While I would agree that google voice was faster, if I can be accused of anything, it is being overly loyal. I will be sticking with my iPhone 4s, And with it being jail broken, I have several tweaks installed that offer me more functionality. I will give credit where credit is due and sat congratulations to google for an impressive new voice assistant.
It’s a good job by Google.
And what’s better? It will push Apple to make Siri better. And then vice versa.
This assistants will finally be more mainstream and work increasingly better.
All Google did was copy Siri. They created a Siri-like interface. Apple acquired Siri because they wanted to integrate it into iOS, and they did it beautifully. Why can’t Google do something different, why copy? Sometimes a copy comes out to be better than the original, but still it’s a copy. I am not mpressed.
it is good that apple gets a stronger competition. It might lower the prices at some point and also apple might be forced to become more innovative. As much as apple tries to innovate, I get the strong feeling they are stalling the progress on purpose.
this is like comparing a 386 (siri) with a 486 (google now)
totally different era, the test should have been done when siri was out, oh wait, it wasn’t
Snazzy
There where mobile assistants long before siri ever came out….
Only thing is Siri allows more functions – google Majel maybe in fall will make up for that
siri will always be better, and google voice is probably only quicker because there are hardly any phones using the google voice servers, where as there will be many phones using the siri servers.
may be you should compare how siri and google now were performing during keynotes….hint: google now outruns siri in performance