With Google is taking a shot at iPhone digital assistant Siri.
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The next-generation Android OS, announced this week at Google I/O, offers the ability to search for and find information about anything you can imagine by simply asking.
Using the power of , the company has incorporated its Knowledge Graph into searches, making its answers more informative than Apple’s digital assistant in some cases.
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In other cases, the Android-based voice search not so hot.
So which is best? We pitted Google Voice Search against , asking a few simple questions such as where what the weather might look like on an upcoming vacation, where we can find a great lunch, and when our favorite sports team was playing next.
When it came to food, Siri was at the top of her game. We asked where we could find Pad Thai, and she was quick to respond with 21 restaurants in our general area that had Pad Thai on the menu, listing them by rating.
Google, meanwhile, was only able to come up with one result for Pad Thai.
For sports, on the other hand, Google was king. We asked when the next Giants game was; Google brought up the time for their next ballgame as well as information about the last one. Google was also smart enough to figure out where were talking about the San Francisco Giants -- rather than the New York team -- since it’s baseball season.
Siri, on the other hand, just searched our calendar for an event labeled “Giants game” -- and didn’t offer the option to search the web when she couldn’t find anything. Not exactly helpful.
Check out the video above for a look at the two search tests in action. Which do you think is superior? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
This story originally published on Mashable .
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