Amazon's Echo Created The Smart Speaker Category. Google's Home Could Own It

Someday soon we'll sit Amazon's Echo and Google Home side by side on the kitchen counter and do the Pepsi Challenge to see which smart speaker is smarter and most helpful. We'll ask each of their voice-powered assistant services a series of questions. Give them a series of tasks to do. They'll read recipes, give traffic reports, talk about the weather, answer trivia questions. Or at least that's my best guess after seeing Home's unveiling at Google's I/O conference keynote on Tuesday.