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Google Assistant can track Santa, make you laugh

New York, Dec 19 (IANS) With Christmas just a few days away, Google has integrated its famous Santa Tracker into artificial intelligence-powered Google Assistant letting a user to check the location of Santa by asking "Where is Santa" or "Track Santa".

Android Police reported that the Google Assistant only provides a text answer in return instead of the full map of the desktop site (or mobile app).

Google has also added several Santa jokes to Assistant.

"Asking 'Tell me a Santa joke' or 'Santa joke' will play a random Santa-related joke with a voice-over from Santa," the report said.

Also, Google Assistant can spin the Dreidel if asked to do so. All these new commands work on all variations of Google Assistant.