id="article-body" class="row " section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> Amazon and Google are . In addition to owning popular home security brands like  and , Amazon is also continuously expanding its line of . Google, on the other hand, now owns Nest and has , and has rebranded most of its "Google Home" devices under the new Nest name, like , for instance.

If you're on the hunt for smart home devices, there's a good chance you're shopping from one of these two companies. 
Our list of  features 12 products, and seven of them are Amazon or Google devices -- or devices made by Amazon- or Google-owned (or funded) companies. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. They're all solid gadgets and BBC World News Today we honestly recommend them. As much as Google and Amazon (the latter, especially) deserve credit for bringing some much-needed organization to the smart home category via their popular voice assistants, it's easy to forget that the home industry is bigger than these two companies.