It's so boring name for a super smart AI. Alexa ๐ Siri ๐ Google ๐ Cortana ๐ Bixby ๐ฑ
Engineer driven company. Not comfortable with girl names.
Damore was in charge of the project
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Maybe because Google really is a person?
To fight against google becoming a verb
Google claims it's so that you feel like you're the one with the superpower, not some digital assistant. Google is a tool, not a person.
It's all about Branding. When you create a project with a name you have to spend time and money to brand it properly. Google already is a brand so they just saved on a few bucks.
According to you apple, amazon, microsoft are not brands.
alexa, cortana are not. they had to build those brands.
To me i thought itโs to emphasize that you are asking google the same way like how you use the search engine. Like you are still asking google search, the google product etc, just interacting with it through a speaker.
"Cocaine poodle" works too
If they named it Shirley, no one in the household with the name Shirley would use it!
Long back people used to say โGoogle itโ if you donโt know something. So according to them Google itself and assistant. But you never used to hear โMicrosoft itโ or โApple itโ.
You can customize the hotword.
How do you change the wakeup command?
Hey Google .....