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Source: www.investors.com --- Thursday, October 09, 2014
Apple's (AAPL) Siri and microsoft's Cortana were drubbed by google Now in a test to determine which mobile voice-controlled search engine provides the most accurate responses. Consulting group Stone Temple Consulting compared the responses of the three services to 3,086 different queries. The questions were a knowledge comparison not a personal assistant comparison. So, STC asked questions that had specific answers like "How many quarts in a gallon?" or "How tall is the Eiffel Tower?" Out of all the questions asked, google's (GOOGL) google Now provided some type of enhanced search result 58% of the time, compared with 29% for Apple's Siri and 20% for microsoft's (MSFT) Cortana. google Now returned twice as many results as Siri and nearly three times as many results as Cortana, STC said in a report Tuesday. "This is clear evidence that google is much further down the path with this type of work than… ...