Right, but were their efforts successful? That's the main difference here, bringing a new product to market successfully.
Long before voice assistants/search became a thing with smart phones there was Google 411 ... which no one remembers.
Long before voice assistants/search became a thing with smart phones there was Google 411 ... which no one remembers.
I'd guess that 20% of Google's mobile queries in 2016 are a few orders of magnitude larger than Amazon's total voice search queries, effectively making Amazon's voice queries a drop in the ocean.