Google Assistant, Majel Rumor Par For the Course

Far be it from me to throw cold water on the prospect of exciting new software from Google, but the Google-is-building-a-Siri-rival meme is wearing thin on me. I noted last year how the smart speech recognition service would be called Majel . Now TechCrunch says that name has changed to, simply, Google Assistant. Check out these other bullet points from the report, which said Assistant's goal is to: Get the world's knowledge into a format a computer can understand.

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