IDG Contributor Network: Google tacks toward home

Last week, Google made a number of consumer-oriented announcements, most particularly a product called Home, a speaker/personal assistant designed to compete against Amazon’s Echo.Echo is no joke, and the Seattle company’s huge victory with its intuitive home assistant is prodding Google to up its game in a market where it should be winning. Not Nuance, not Apple, not Microsoft, not Google, but Amazon has figured out the home assistant, and Google has to respond with its full array o