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Amazon’s Echo is far ahead of Google Home in sales. They’re trying to get voice in everything. Many companies were showing off Alexa built into their products at CES.

Voice as a user interface is almost here:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte...

How long before a significant amount of search is simply asking some device a question and being told the answer?

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> How long before a significant amount of search is simply asking some device a question and being told the answer?

Probably never. People read way faster than listen and in a productivity obsessed world this matters a lot. People also don't want others to hear what they are searching for. And these things are part of human nature, not something to get used to.

I can see people doing voice-typing on mobile when they are in private, because mobile is super awkward to type on. But that's about it.

It's already 20% and that stat is nearly a year old

https://searchengineland.com/google-reveals-20-percent-queri...

Is Alexa launched for non US? European market is pretty big and needs support for non English languages (Google home is already launched in a bunch of European countries).

Similar to Apple with the iPhone, Amazon dominance on voice interfaces might end up being only true for the US market.

Apple iPhone does really well in Asia. Not sure where you think dominance is only true for the USA.

It's a strange world, because in terms of functionality the echo is a toy compared to Home.

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