• The Verge, Thursday, November 3, 2016 1:44 PM

The first reviews are coming in for Google Home -- the search giant’s answer to Amazon’s Alexa “connected” speaker -- and they’re not great. “For the Home … to be as indispensable as Google is everywhere else, it needs to do a lot more,” Dan Seifert writes in The Verge. “It needs to be a lot smarter; it needs to know a lot more about me, my family, and our habits; and it needs to be more proactive with its assistance.” For Google’s part, the company promises that many improvements to Home are coming.

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