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onthecouchagain

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10 minute video demonstrating all the improvements of Google Now over the past year:



It's really impressive how quickly it can get answers for you.

At the rate they're going, I can only imagine how much more it'll improve in the next year. Hopefully more hands-free-ness, for example, I wish all actions had the load bar that will automatically give the command the 'OK' to go ahead. It has this feature for a lot of commands, but some are noticeably missing.


"Show me my pictures from Amsterdamn" was a really impressive command, too. Google then loaded the pics from that album.

Or "Show me some pictures I took in a pool" or "show me pictures of my cat". Both pulled the appropriate pictures. Impressive.
 
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MRU

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And yet its still pretty useless for me .... And hammers my battery when on. Seriously I can do almost as much with it turned off as with it on (add appointments and reminders via voice, weather is available from a trillion different sources and such) that the negative impact it has on my battery is not worth it being on.
 

Todd B.

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I don't think I want to meet the people stupid enough to let Google be their data provider.
 

sddabrow

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Oct 7, 2011
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10 minute video demonstrating all the improvements of Google Now over the past year:

YouTube: video


It's really impressive how quickly it can get answers for you.

At the rate they're going, I can only imagine how much more it'll improve in the next year. Hopefully more hands-free-ness, for example, I wish all actions had the load bar that will automatically give the command the 'OK' to go ahead. It has this feature for a lot of commands, but some are noticeably missing.


"Show me my pictures from Amsterdamn" was a really impressive command, too. Google then loaded the pics from that album.

Or "Show me some pictures I took in a pool" or "show me pictures of my cat". Both pulled the appropriate pictures. Impressive.

Thanks for sharing this! Looks quite impressive compared to Siri's capabilities.
 

heutusops

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Aug 6, 2013
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this thread should be made sticky... there's so much new and informative stuff here, bookmarking it:D
 
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