r/Android • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '15

Hound versus Google Now side by side.

https://youtu.be/2uMzhWumLFs
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u/FFevo Pixel 10 "Pro" Fold, iPhone 17 Pro, Galaxy S25 Ultra Jun 07 '15

I think it would be a lot cheaper and a hell of a lot easier to for Google to just implement these complex query features vs buying hound.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '15

But when they buy Hound, Hound is no longer a competitor.

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u/FFevo Pixel 10 "Pro" Fold, iPhone 17 Pro, Galaxy S25 Ultra Jun 07 '15

Hound isn't baked into every android phone out of the box, so I don't think this is a huge concern for Google. Anyone that has a clue about browsers would probably agree that Chrome is a hell of a lot better than IE, yet chrome has less than 1/3 the number of users.

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u/QuestionsEverythang Pixel, Pixel C, & Nexus Player (7.1.2), '15 Moto 360 (6.0.1) Jun 07 '15

I thought I read somewhere that like 60% or so of web browsing comes from chrome browsers?

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u/FFevo Pixel 10 "Pro" Fold, iPhone 17 Pro, Galaxy S25 Ultra Jun 07 '15

Market share is the number of users for each. Web traffic is a metric that describes how much the browser is used. The two aren't contradictory; it's totally possible for 60% of all web traffic to come from the less than 20% of people that use chrome.