Google Now is more accurate than Siri

The comprehension abilities of Apple’s voice-driven personal assistant Siri continue to get better, but new testing shows that using Google Now for searching on Android has surpassed it in terms of accuracy when answering queries. Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray did a side-by-side comparison of Apple’s Siri and Google Now this month, and the results of those tests were shared with AppleInsider in a new research note on Tuesday. He found that the Android voice search function correctly answered questions 84 percent of the time, barely edging out Siri, which was 82 percent correct. Both platforms have seen major improvements in comprehension levels. In particular, Siri was found this month to correctly interpret questions 96 percent of the time, up from an 88 percent accuracy rate in tests conducted in December of 2012. But there’s still a disparity between correctly hearing the question and correctly answering it. When Siri heard the question correctly, it still provided the wrong answer 16 percent of the time. Last December, Munster ranked Apple’s Siri with a grade of “C+”, which at the time was even with his assessment of Google Now. But in his latest July rankings, while Siri improved to a “B-“, Google’s search was given a slightly better grade of “B”.