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Google Assistant Update Already Brings Typing, New “Explore” and “Your Stuff” Tabs

Kellen May 19, 2017 20

Google announced a whole bunch of new Google Assistant features at I/O this week and many are already rolling out through a Google App update. Thanks to this update, you'll now be able to type out entries to the Assistant, plus there is a new screen that...

Google App Update Breaks Google Now Into Two Feeds

Kellen December 6, 2016 40

The Google App is receiving an update this week that breaks Google Now into two separate feeds of information. One of the feeds will keep you up to date on your subscribed-to news, sports, and entertainment, while the other will be used to help you stay on...

Google Now Lets You Check How Busy a Place is In Real-Time

Kellen November 21, 2016 21

Back in 2015, Google introduced a featured in Google Search that showed you when a retailer, bar, restaurant, or other location was the most popular. The Popular Times section in the place's listing featured a graph that let you see at what time might be best...

Google Launches In Apps Search on Android to Let You Search Within Everything

Kellen August 31, 2016 18

Late last night, Google unwrapped a new feature for the Google App on Android that lets you search within apps installed on your phone. The new feature is called (fittingly) In Apps and will show up as a new "In Apps" tab within Search. What's the point of...

Google Search Now Lets You Play Solitaire or Tic-Tac-Toe

Kellen August 25, 2016 21

From within the Google app (or on the desktop), you can now play solitaire or tic-tac-toe without ever installing either game. Thanks to the power of Google, each game is essentially embedded within search results, giving you quick access to two of the all-...

Google Now on Tap Gets the Feature It Should Have had From Day 1

Kellen August 5, 2016 37

Sorry for the clickbaity title, but it seemed so perfect for the new "feature," if you can call it that, that arrived in the Google App Beta today. As you launch Google Now on Tap from your home screen this morning, Google will now show you the Google Now...

Google Now on Tap Gets Translating From Any Screen, New Discover Mode, Barcode/QR Scanning

Kellen July 6, 2016 9

Google Now on Tap, a one-time cool but limited party trick, is sure turning into the useful service we all hoped (and sort of envisioned) it could be come. The latest wave of new features to hit the in-the-moment search service includes the ability to...

Official: Google Adds Text Select and Image Search to Now on Tap

Kellen June 1, 2016 16

Earlier this morning, we highlighted a new feature that was rolling out to Google Now on Tap that allows you to select specific text to run searches on. We assumed it was a beta feature that was slowing arriving on devices, but Google went ahead and announced...