{"id":7963,"date":"2018-05-03T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/?post_type=entity&#038;p=7963"},"modified":"2018-05-04T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:56:46","slug":"launch-amazon-alexa","status":"publish","type":"entity","link":"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/launch-amazon-alexa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Launch of Amazon Alexa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Alexa &#8211; a name that was easy for a machine to be understood and somehow connected with the\u00a0<a title=\"Library of Alexandria\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Alexandria\">Library of Alexandria<\/a>\u00a0one of the most significant libraries in the ancient times, <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Amazon.com\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/amazon-com\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/amazon-com;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/Amazon.com;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0mgkg;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Amazon.com\" >Amazon<\/a>, in November 2014 introduces a smart speaker developed by its notorious research arm the Amazon <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/lab126\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/lab126;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.03y8z8d;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Lab126\" >Lab126<\/a>. Alexa is\u00a0<span>a connected speaker\u00a0<\/span><span>that listens for voice commands and respond with information or by triggering a task (these are applications called Skills and developed by Amazon or by third-party developers).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Amazon partnered with Microsoft to integrate more tightly\u00a0with Cortana (the personal digital assistant from Redmond). Since the beginning search services from Alexa have been provided by <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/bing\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/bing;http:\/\/yago-knowledge.org\/resource\/Bing;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0bx7rw;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Bing\" >Bing<\/a> and this is most likely due to the fact that\u00a0<span>Amazon by using Google Search, would have also helped in training <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/google-assistant\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0216\/entity\/google_assistant;https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q25025241;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Google_Assistant\" >Google Assistant<\/a> that is de facto its strongest competitor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While not directly connected with online search, using Alexa, users can trigger online searches.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Read\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/search-engine-results-page\/\"><strong>the full history of the SERP<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to learn more about the evolution of web search into personal digital assistants<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Alexa &#8211; a name that was easy for a machine to be understood and somehow connected with the\u00a0Library of Alexandria\u00a0one of the most significant libraries in the ancient times, Amazon, in November 2014 introduces a smart speaker developed by its notorious research arm the Amazon Lab126. Alexa is\u00a0a connected speaker\u00a0that listens for voice commands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/launch-amazon-alexa\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_wlpage_enable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"wl_entity_type":[14],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7963","entity","type-entity","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wl_entity_type-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Launch of Amazon Alexa - WordLift Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wordlift.io\/blog\/en\/entity\/launch-amazon-alexa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Launch of Amazon Alexa - WordLift Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With Alexa &#8211; a name that was easy for a machine to be understood and somehow connected with the\u00a0Library of Alexandria\u00a0one of the most significant libraries in the ancient times, Amazon, in November 2014 introduces a smart speaker developed by its notorious research arm the Amazon Lab126. 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