How to add Google to the Amazon Alexa

Note: The following is an article about how to add Google.com to the Alexa device.  This is a 3rd party skill, and not endorsed by Amazon.com.  Use at your own risk.

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As a whole, the Amazon Echo is a great device.  Both Amazon and 3rd party developers are trying to make Alexa smarter every day.  But it does have its limitations.  Sure, you can wait until a 3rd party developer comes out with a skill to fill a void, but that may take months of development and testing.

An open source project created a skill that allows an Amazon Echo to be able to access Google.com to try and fill the gaps in knowledge that the Echo currently has.  But because this is not an official Amazon skill, an end user has to manually add it to the device.  This includes copying and pasting programming code into an Amazon Developer’s web site.  

If you’re one that has been wondering how Alexa skills are made, then this article is for you.  It can take anywhere from 20-30 minutes to complete.  But (in my opinion) it’s worth it.

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