Tag: Google Now
Third party support comes to Google Now
Google has added support for a number of non-Google services to its creepily prescient "Google Now" service, which serves up "cards" relevant to whatever the service thinks you need. For example, if you're about to get on a plane it will show you your boarding card from your inbox, and before a meeting will show…
Google Now can search within apps… now!
Google's latest update to its Android Google Now app has just made things ever clever: It can trigger searches within apps. In a post on the Android Developers Blog, the example is given of voice searching "Ok Google, search pizza on Eat24" or "Ok Google, search for hotels in Maui on TripAdvisor.". Then rather than…
Google releases stock Android launcher to all Android handsets
If you've got a Samsung Galaxy, HTC or an LG Android phone then you're getting an Android experience, but perhaps not the exact one that Google intended. If, however, you'd like to get a taste of what Nexus users have, then now you can simply download the Google Now launcher from the Google Play Store.…
Google Now hits iPhone and iPad
Google's superb Google Now digital personal assistant service is now available for the iPhone and iPad. Landing as an update to the iOS Google Search app, Google Now has until this point been an exclusive feature of Android versions 4.1…