Amazon Echo Has the Connections, but Google Home Has the Smarts

If you need to hail an Uber, Amazon's wildly popular virtual assistant Alexa is your go-to connection. But if you're looking for an artificially intelligent conversation partner, Google Home seems like the better fit. Reviews are in for the Home device which Google releases Friday. The product is Google's answer to Amazon Echo, a cylindrical microphone that runs Alexa. The consensus: This new thing from Google is very smart.