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Compared with Amazon Echo, however, it has also been rated unfavourably in certain areas. It has less third-party app support than Amazon Echo, the Google Assistant does not supposedly sound as good as Amazon Alexa, and it is not much good for a non-Google user.<ref>BETTERS, Elyse, BUNTON, Cam. Google Home review: A better voice assistant than Amazon Echo? Pocket-lint [online]. 2017, May 3. Available online at: http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/139617-google-home-review-a-better-voice-assistant-than-amazon-echo (Received 2017, Jun 16)</ref><ref>GIBBS, Samuel. Google Home review: the smart speaker that answers almost any question. The Guardian [online]. 2017, May 10. Available online at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/10/google-home-smart-speaker-review-voice-controlled (Received 2017, Jun 16)</ref>
Based on the available reviews, Google Home has been thus considered to be overally the better one of the two. It has been also agreed, however, that in its current state it has many limitations , and therefore more is expected from it in the future. As written by Dan Seifert of The Verge, "the Home is a pretty useless assistant in its current form":<ref>SEIFERT, Dan. Google Home review: Home is where the smart is. The Verge [online]. 2016, Nov 3. Available online at: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13504658/google-home-review-speaker-assistant-amazon-echo-competitor (Retrieved 2017, Jun 16)</ref>
<blockquote>Sure, it can answer questions like how far away the moon is, or tell me how many cups are in a liter, or set a timer for my cookies in the oven when I ask it to. I can ask it to wake me up at six in the morning, then ask it to snooze the alarm when I don’t want to wake up at 6AM. It can give me a news briefing on command, put things on a shopping list, or tell me the score of the most recent Broncos game and when the next game will be. A lot of these functions are exactly the same as the Echo’s, but Google’s intelligence shines through in small ways: it knows that when I ask to be woken up at six tomorrow, I’m referring to 6AM and not 6PM. Alexa isn’t smart enough for that and asks me to clarify.
