{"id":3008,"date":"2017-02-17T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:34:00","slug":"google-adds-voice-activated-shopping-taking-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/02\/17\/google-adds-voice-activated-shopping-taking-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds voice-activated shopping, taking on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Thursday it was launching voice-activated shopping from its artificial intelligence-powered Home speaker, in a direct challenge to Amazon\u2019s Alexa devices.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nUsers can simply tell the speaker to order items \u2014 diapers, paper towels, or trash bags, for example, and get delivery from any of dozens of participating retailers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf picking up paper towels or stocking up on coffee is on your list, consider it done,\u201d said Google Assistant product manager David Wang in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo help you keep up with your busy schedule and shop for the things you need, we\u2019re introducing shopping with your Google Assistant on Google Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The service ties in with tech giant\u2019s delivery arm Google Express, whose US retailers include Costco, Whole Foods Market, Walgreens, PetSmart, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers can add payment information to their accounts to enable voice-activated shopping, which is a feature on Amazon\u2019s devices powered by the digital assistant called Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>Wang said: \u201cToday is just the beginning of what\u2019s possible for shopping with the Google Assistant. Over the coming months, we\u2019ll continue to add new features and enable purchases for other apps and service.\u201d\u2014AFP<\/p>\n<p>Image: phys.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced Thursday it was launching voice-activated shopping from its artificial intelligence-powered Home speaker, in a direct challenge to Amazon\u2019s Alexa devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}