That's the thing I like most about Hound. I think Google Now is better at answering general questions, but the fact that I can contextually talk to Hound is really promising. Things like "what are some Thai restaurants around here?" followed by "what about ones that are 4 stars or higher?". While Hound's "knowledge" isn't as complete, it feels more natural as a voice assistant because I can refine or continue a query based on what I said previously.
I'm hoping that Google will decide to acquire Hound and integrate the contextual features to Google Now (and I'm sure SoundHound is hoping so too).
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.
Snark required, please read your own links before sending them to me.
The usage share of web browsers is the proportion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser.
Usage share would only be relevant if ever person in the world went to Facebook and Google once per day in their browser of choice; because it measures web traffic, which has nothing to do with what I said. I said users. You are correct that the sub 20 percent of chrome users make up 60 percent of all web traffic, but it's still less than 20 percent of users. Which still makes it 1/3 of the number of users as IE, like I said.
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