Google Assistant hits 1 billion devices as war against Alexa heats up

6:00am PST - January 7th, 2019    daily search trends - Mashable

Google raised some eyebrows at last year's CES, when the company all but declared war on Amazon's Alexa and other rivals. This year, at CES 2019, Google's physical presence at the show is three times bigger, and accompanies a similarly impossible-to-escape ad…