Superpod, the startup app developer has been acquired by the online tech-giant Google. The company is known for building apps to post questions and get answers from the experts flawlessly. Google’s acquisition will help it to boost its Assistant's ability and give it the strength to answer users' questions accurately.
According to the latest report, Google paid almost $60 million to the founder of the company "acqui-hire" and purchased some of the startup’s assets. No more financial details have been revealed by Google so far.
Superpod had closed its Q&A app last year in the month of September. In a message, Superpod founder mentioned that no further details can be shared at this point in time but with this acquisition, the company is very excited and hope to see something better.
Google is consistently working on its Assistant's capabilities to work similar to other high-end devices including Amazon Alexa. Alexa being so popular, Google is trying to outperform her and other voice-assisted devices like Apple’s ‘Siri’. There is a test to check the effectiveness of the smart speakers and Google is really trying very hard to reach on the top.
As per the report, "Smart Speaker IQ Test" 2018 edition, Google Assistant that was tested on Google Home smart speaker answered 87.9% of users’ questions correctly where the system answered only 81.1 % in 2017. This shows a commendable improvement in Google’s smart assistant.
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