It's been a slow erosion, but recent cracks in Google's smart home foundation paint a very grim picture of the future.

In just a few, short years, smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Echo have become ubiquitous. Calling them by their wake phrases is now second nature and even my grandparents and 4-year-old ...

Now — about six months after Google Home’s debut — Amazon may still have more third-party skills, but Google Assistant is matching and outclassing Alexa in all its other features. Here’s how.

If the core of your smart home is powered by the Google Home app and Google Assistant, you've likely had a frustrating few ...

Alexa vs. Google Assistant: Smart Home Compatibility Amazon and Google continue to expand their smart home capabilities, and with third party developers and manufacturers adding Alexa and Google ...

1. Google Home still can't trigger an action based on your location If only there were some magical way to make your gadgets do your bidding without having to actually say anything. Well, there is ...

Alexa launched with limited ability to control smart-home devices, and Google Home started with a similar small number: Philips Hue bulbs, SmartThings devices, Nest, and If This Then That recipes.

Finally, Google Home is of course a search device. It supports complex search queries, but can also get to know the user and pull in things like contextually-relevant results, traffic alerts ...

Google Home and Amazon Alexa, by default, always listen to your conversations. But they don't record anything until they hear specific keywords such as "OK, Google" or "Alexa." ...

Alexa and Siri can't tell you when your next flight is, or when a bill is due. Alexa and Siri couldn't do this, perhaps because they're not reading my Gmail with the eagle eye of Google. How to ...

If Google offers a smaller, cheaper version of Google Home that may appeal to a wider audience, Google may give Alexa a run for her money. But for now, Alexa is the younger, trendier, audio ...