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Google takes the top two spots in this week's ZDNET Innovation Index

While it was arguably a big week for hardware innovations, none of them had any luck dethroning AI from the top spots in ZDNET's tech trends.

By pushing generative AI in search results and infusing its maps platform with new travel-planning features, Google grabbed the most votes from our panel. The top vote getter by a wide margin was Google's new experiment with placing a generative AI summary above traditional search results. And finally, the root of all generative AI advancements -- the Large Language Model -- got some love with Claude 3's surprising nod at being more effective than OpenAI's GPT-4.

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