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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by godaddy what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here last week we had a battle of digital assistants we had apples series squaring up get Microsoft's Cortana the logical continuation to that is to show you how Google now stacks up against Microsoft latest so go ahead put these two head-to-head and see which one you think comes out on top so the usual caveats here are going to apply Cortana is still very clearly in beta and beyond that it's running on a beta OS in Windows Phone 8.1 so take that for what you will on the left of course we've got google now running on an AT&T version of the HTC One m8 someone asked exactly the same questions that I did when I compared Siri versus Cortana so you can see how both would compare let's go ahead and start and usually when I've done these up hitting both the same time see which one come to a quicker but I'm going to go one of them the other two I want you be able to hear what the phone say and how quickly they say it what's the weather outside it's 86 degrees and partly cloudy in irvine and Cortana could launch either by hitting the search button or just the iconic you've got it there what's the weather outside it's currently 85 n clear so you see different there and how the information is shown you got the grayscale or the black and white scale rather and sort of the google card look on google now let's go for some sports questions who won the angels game so that took me to the web you sometimes it'll show you the actual score though who won the angels game on monday the los angeles angels defeated the cleveland indians 623 that they did set an alarm for 30 minutes setting alarm for 1203 p.m. you can wait for the blue bar to go over to the end where you can just hit set alarm that's how that works set alarm for 30 minutes all right your alarm is set for 1203 p.m. very quick let's do some reminders remind me to buy milk so it'll pick when and where I should also say that both these are connect to the same Wi-Fi networks here at the office remind me to buy milk tomorrow sure thing so both of them asked the same questions what day and what time Google now does it with Tex in Syria and Syria right now Cortana rather does it with voice not Syria of course our next let's try opening applications launch Chrome opening up let go and lunch in chrome launch internet explorer all right starting internet explorer so go ahead and launch internet explorer now what about if you want to go to a website so let's try that go to TechnoBuffalo com opening web page so that would go and open the webpage wait so that blue bar goes across or just select it go to TechnoBuffalo calm so that pulls up a Bing search you can select it right from there let's ask it some sports questions how old is Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant is 35 years old how old is Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant is 35 years old khob a that's try movie times show me movie times for Captain America so that just launched the web and you can sort of see some times quickly show up down below show me movie times for Captain America same thing with a web search there you take a quick step away from the battle here from it thank our friends and overall good peeps add Go Daddy it's go time and go daddy is here to help you kick butt online start your website today with a two dollar ninety-five cent comm check out godaddy.com and your promo code techno 295 no spaces to get your calm for just two dollars and ninety-five cents check out the website though for some limitations you ever want to start a blog or create your brand new site now is the chance again used to code techno 295 what is the national animal of Scotland Scotland's national animal is the unicorn what is the national animal of Scotland unicorn show me pictures of buffaloes pictures of buffaloes here you go show me pictures of buffaloes those are the 10 questions that i wanted to show but just for fun let's do one more tell me a joke tell me a joke why didn't the spider go to school because you learned everything on the web hmm it shows a bit of personality that Cortana has so what do you guys think certainly Google now I think is the crème de la crème of digital assistants before but Cortana while still kind of late to the game still in beta is really really good so don't really can't decide which one's best which one's going to work the best in future but I didn't want to show that Cortana despite being new is really up to par with the best digital assistant going right now so I think Microsoft did a really nice job but you know what do you guys think so what you guys think about google now vs. Cortana certainly Cortana still in beta but it's a pretty strong showing for a beta product let's hear your thoughts well maybe this help you determine which phone you want to get maybe look differently at Windows Phone or no way you are solely only looking at Google hope to hear you guys thoughts on it please leave the 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