Most likely compete. Google excels at organizing information by means of symbolic processing/manipulation. Dog "know-how" is opaque enough to mix well with existing expertise.
Unless they go meta and get in the dog training business, effectively using dogs as black box components in their wider system.
Will this compete or compliment the notion that using canines in the cancer / disease detection process is an avenue for further study?
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/training-dogs-to-sn...