Depending on your region, you can now ask your Amazon Echo for information about the closest business and get the hours, thanks to Amazon’s recent partnership with Yext, a company that’s supplying the tech giant with business data aggregated from Google and Facebook, as well as Apple’s Siri assistant, according to Bloomberg. Since 2015, Amazon has offered similar information through Yelp, and the information pulled from the review site is what allowed people to use their Amazon speakers to, for example, find the most popular restaurants in their area. The data from Yext is pulled directly from businesses that partner with the platform, like T-Mobile, and Rite Aid, who work with Yext to keep their data up to date.
This update is limited to a select few countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, and India according to a statement about the partnership on Yext’s website with plans to expand to other countries in the future.
