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General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: Jermil on December 26, 2016, 01:40:48 pm

Title: Using Google Search
Post by: Jermil on December 26, 2016, 01:40:48 pm

I love my Echo but I hate Bing; it often doesn't know the answer to basic questions. I assume Amazon has a contract with Microsoft for search.
Has anyone yet figured out how write a skill that would enable search on Google? Is there any other way to access Google on my Echo?
I also listed this as a request to Amazon.

Title: Re: Using Google Search
Post by: xFlip on December 26, 2016, 06:03:23 pm

Quote from: Jermil on December 26, 2016, 01:40:48 pm

I love my Echo but I hate Bing; it often doesn't know the answer to basic questions. I assume Amazon has a contract with Microsoft for search.
Has anyone yet figured out how write a skill that would enable search on Google? Is there any other way to access Google on my Echo?
I also listed this as a request to Amazon.

I'm a bit new to this and wasn't aware of any web searching.  How do I access this?

Title: Re: Using Google Search
Post by: crabjoe on December 27, 2016, 05:47:53 pm

Quote from: xFlip on December 26, 2016, 06:03:23 pm

I'm a bit new to this and wasn't aware of any web searching.  How do I access this?

It's automatic.  When you as Alexa a question, it'll do a web search.  Just look at your Alexa app and it'll show the question and how it searched Bing.

I wish I could switch the search engine to google too.  Bing is terrible!