Google added some Siri Shortcuts for its search, Gmail, Drive and YouTube apps on iOS, the company announced on February 6. Siri uses can take actions within the corresponding Google app through the assistant by saying trigger phrases, such as “search with Google.” Users can say “search in Drive” to access their Google Drive files, “search YouTube” …
Researchers at Google AI, Jannis Bulian and Neil Houlsby presented a paper that shed light on new methods they’re testing to improve search results at the Sixth International Conference on Learning Representations. Although publishing a paper doesn’t always mean the methods are being used, or even will be, it will likely increase the odds when the results …
The use of voice search and voice assistants that answer questions have been on the rise for years now, and according to Google, 20 percent of all mobile search queries are voice search, and that number will only go up. These days, the technology behind voice recognition has been getting better and better. As an example, …
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Google Assistant is being made available via SDK to third parties by Google to integrate into their appliances and devices. Google is quickly ramping up third-party content integration into the Assistant. The company made the announcement this week at their developer conference that the Google Assistant is available on over 100 million devices and has more than …
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