Why Google Assistant is smarter than Alexa (for now)

Yet there are several important data points involved, and the Alexa assistant that runs on my Amazon Echo speaker doesn't know what to do. Using the Google Assistant bot on the new Google Allo messaging app, things are a little different. Google has spent the last 18 years parsing the data for search queries. One of the key differences between the Assistant and Alexa is that Google understands context.