Tuesday 23 April 2013

Google Now likely to step into iGoogle breach

Google Now offers context-dependent cards, for example subway information while at the platform

With Google's current homepage option, iGoogle, set to go the way of the dodo in November 2013, it looks increasingly likely that Google Now is being groomed as a replacement.


Google Now is an adaptive personal assistant-style app which is currently available for the company's Android operating system. It uses cards -- ways of dividing information into chunks depending on subject -- to display the information you are most likely to need at a given time using cues drawn from other Google services like the Calendar or Gmail.


By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/23/google-now

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