hello guys,
just before a day, i started giving attention to google now,
its simply ausom!
its very useful,
very Convenient and easy to use.
here goes an artical explainig the settings and features of google now
hope you'll like it.
How to get the best out of Google Now
google now privacy data
There’s been a fair bit of confusion about what Google Now really is. It’s easy to describe it as Google’s version of Siri, but it’s actually a lot more ambitious than that. Sure, you can use it to set reminders to buy milk or have dinner with friends, and you can ask it basic questions about the weather tomorrow or who directed The Shining, but the real attraction lies in its abilities to preempt your desires and needs.
If you let it learn about you and your habits, then it can throw up information that it thinks you might be interested in. News, sports scores, weather, and traffic information is served up in real time based on your previous movements and searches. Information is served up in the form of cards, which you can tap for more detail or swipe away to ignore. When it works, Google Now can give you what you want before you even know you want it.
The set up
You won’t get great results unless you set Google Now up with all the information it needs. This will involve some trust on your part. For heavy users of Google services it won’t be an issue, but anyone with privacy concerns is liable to think twice. Google Now is built-in to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and above, and you can also now get it as a free iOS app (it’s part of the Google Search app).
It’s worth spending some time in the settings before you start to use Google Now. On Android you’ll probably have a Google search bar on your home screen and you can tap it to bring up Google Now, or you can select Google from the app drawer. On iOS you’ll want to open the Google Search app. You should be asked to set it up the first time you use it, but you can return to the app and enter settings whenever you like, in order to tweak things.
Google_Now_Settings
Go to Privacy & accounts and tap Manage location history and then Location settings and make sure that Location reporting is on, Report from this device is ticked and Enable location history is ticked.
Now go back to Settings > Privacy & accounts and make sure that Web history is on. You can also edit your Web history from here. Alternatively you can access it on your computer and laptop. Just click on your name at the top right on the Google page, when you are signed in to your Google account, and choose Account and then click on Products over on the left and choose Web history. You’ll find detailed stats and categorized information on your searches. You can turn it on or off via the Settings cog at the top right. Google Now will draw on this information, if you let it.
Back in the Google Now Settings menu there are some more things worth mentioning. Tap Google Now All cards to choose exactly what you want to receive cards about. Tap Notifications to choose exactly which kinds of cards merit a notification and how it should sound. The My stuff option will allow you to set your home and work locations, set your favorite sports teams, and choose stocks that you are interested in. Finally, in Voice, you might want to Download offline speech recognition so you can add reminders when you’re offline.
Google_Now_Cards_Notifications
Pre-emptive Google Now
If you really want to get a feel for what Google Now can do, then you have to let it run for an extended period of time. It needs at least a week to start to get a handle on your movements and the kind of information that you are interested in. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t turn GPS on to get your location and it shouldn’t be a major drain on your battery life. Just let it to gather intel in the background, and you’ll reap the rewards over time.
The more it learns about you, the more useful it potentially becomes. Being able to tie together the fact that you have an appointment across town, with real-time traffic conditions, to give you a reminder about when you need to leave and what route to take to get there on time is impressive, but it obviously won’t be useful for everyone. Much depends on the way you use your phone and what your habits are.
As cards pop up you can swipe them away to get rid of them, tap on them to get more detailed information, or tap the small “i” icon at the top right to change associated settings. You can also scroll down to the bottom to request that it Show more cards. You’ll tend to find it doesn’t show much at first, but over time it should display more and more interesting and relevant cards.
Using Google Now as an assistant
When it’s not gazing into its crystal ball to bring you nuggets of potentially useful information, you can also use Google Now as a good old-fashioned assistant. Think of it as the personal assistant you can’t afford. Since release, Google has been adding a steady stream of voice commands and new functions, so you might be surprised at what’s on offer.
Google_Now_Examples
You can type traditional searches into the search box as normal, but if you tap the microphone you’ll unlock truly convenient voice search and commands. Here’s a small sample list of potential questions and commands:
◾Who is the CEO of Google?
◾What is the meaning of smartphone?
◾Show me the stocks for Sony.
◾What time is it in New York?
◾Will it rain tomorrow?
◾Show all hotels near me.
◾Go to techbuddyishere.blogspot.in
◾What is 13 stones in kilograms?
◾Premier league table.
◾Play Blue Monday.
◾Wake me up in an hour.
◾Call Jenny.
◾Images of the Empire State Building.
◾When will BA 2215 land?
◾When is my next appointment?
◾Remind me to take out the trash when I get home.
◾Launch Google Plus.
◾What’s this song?
A lot of questions Google Now will reply to out loud. When you order it to perform an action, such as calling someone, or launching an app, it will show a loading bar, so you have time to quit if it misinterpreted your request. When you ask “What’s this song?” it will listen for a moment and then tell you, as well as providing a link to buy it in Google Play.
The voice input is generally solid, but much depends on your accent. Background noise can also cause a problem with it interpreting your speech. However, even with a retry, it’s often faster than typing.
The future of Google Now
There are some features in there that don’t seem to work for everybody, or that seem somewhat limited, but have stunning potential. There are also some exciting additions on the way.
One of them seems to pull in the functionality of Google Goggles, so you can use the camera to identify objects. This was rolled out in a previous version of Google Now, but seems to have been removed, possibly because it isn’t ready for prime time. Get the Google Goggles app if you want to try it out. You can still use the “Scan barcode” command to use your camera to scan barcodes within Google Now.
FieldTripYou might be interested in checking out Google’s Field Trip app. It highlights all sorts of cool and interesting things in your immediate vicinity and we can see it being folded in to Google Now at some point.
At Google I/O we got a glimpse of the future for Google Now. You will be able to activate the voice search or commands by saying “OK, Google” and it will anticipate follow up questions and try to provide useful related information before you ask for it. It will also remember your previous questions and handle relatively complex requests. Information and recommendations on music, books, TV shows, and video games that you might like is also rolling out now. We’ll have to check it out before we decide whether it’s advert spam by another route, or genuinely useful.
In any case, it’s clear that Google is committed to improving Now and it already surpasses the competition, if you give it the chance. Half-hearted use of Google Now will not impress, it’s an all or nothing deal if you really want to feel the benefits.
article taken from,
www.digitaltrrend.com
just before a day, i started giving attention to google now,
its simply ausom!
its very useful,
very Convenient and easy to use.
here goes an artical explainig the settings and features of google now
hope you'll like it.
How to get the best out of Google Now
google now privacy data
There’s been a fair bit of confusion about what Google Now really is. It’s easy to describe it as Google’s version of Siri, but it’s actually a lot more ambitious than that. Sure, you can use it to set reminders to buy milk or have dinner with friends, and you can ask it basic questions about the weather tomorrow or who directed The Shining, but the real attraction lies in its abilities to preempt your desires and needs.
If you let it learn about you and your habits, then it can throw up information that it thinks you might be interested in. News, sports scores, weather, and traffic information is served up in real time based on your previous movements and searches. Information is served up in the form of cards, which you can tap for more detail or swipe away to ignore. When it works, Google Now can give you what you want before you even know you want it.
The set up
You won’t get great results unless you set Google Now up with all the information it needs. This will involve some trust on your part. For heavy users of Google services it won’t be an issue, but anyone with privacy concerns is liable to think twice. Google Now is built-in to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and above, and you can also now get it as a free iOS app (it’s part of the Google Search app).
It’s worth spending some time in the settings before you start to use Google Now. On Android you’ll probably have a Google search bar on your home screen and you can tap it to bring up Google Now, or you can select Google from the app drawer. On iOS you’ll want to open the Google Search app. You should be asked to set it up the first time you use it, but you can return to the app and enter settings whenever you like, in order to tweak things.
Google_Now_Settings
Go to Privacy & accounts and tap Manage location history and then Location settings and make sure that Location reporting is on, Report from this device is ticked and Enable location history is ticked.
Now go back to Settings > Privacy & accounts and make sure that Web history is on. You can also edit your Web history from here. Alternatively you can access it on your computer and laptop. Just click on your name at the top right on the Google page, when you are signed in to your Google account, and choose Account and then click on Products over on the left and choose Web history. You’ll find detailed stats and categorized information on your searches. You can turn it on or off via the Settings cog at the top right. Google Now will draw on this information, if you let it.
Back in the Google Now Settings menu there are some more things worth mentioning. Tap Google Now All cards to choose exactly what you want to receive cards about. Tap Notifications to choose exactly which kinds of cards merit a notification and how it should sound. The My stuff option will allow you to set your home and work locations, set your favorite sports teams, and choose stocks that you are interested in. Finally, in Voice, you might want to Download offline speech recognition so you can add reminders when you’re offline.
Google_Now_Cards_Notifications
Pre-emptive Google Now
If you really want to get a feel for what Google Now can do, then you have to let it run for an extended period of time. It needs at least a week to start to get a handle on your movements and the kind of information that you are interested in. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t turn GPS on to get your location and it shouldn’t be a major drain on your battery life. Just let it to gather intel in the background, and you’ll reap the rewards over time.
The more it learns about you, the more useful it potentially becomes. Being able to tie together the fact that you have an appointment across town, with real-time traffic conditions, to give you a reminder about when you need to leave and what route to take to get there on time is impressive, but it obviously won’t be useful for everyone. Much depends on the way you use your phone and what your habits are.
As cards pop up you can swipe them away to get rid of them, tap on them to get more detailed information, or tap the small “i” icon at the top right to change associated settings. You can also scroll down to the bottom to request that it Show more cards. You’ll tend to find it doesn’t show much at first, but over time it should display more and more interesting and relevant cards.
Using Google Now as an assistant
When it’s not gazing into its crystal ball to bring you nuggets of potentially useful information, you can also use Google Now as a good old-fashioned assistant. Think of it as the personal assistant you can’t afford. Since release, Google has been adding a steady stream of voice commands and new functions, so you might be surprised at what’s on offer.
Google_Now_Examples
You can type traditional searches into the search box as normal, but if you tap the microphone you’ll unlock truly convenient voice search and commands. Here’s a small sample list of potential questions and commands:
◾Who is the CEO of Google?
◾What is the meaning of smartphone?
◾Show me the stocks for Sony.
◾What time is it in New York?
◾Will it rain tomorrow?
◾Show all hotels near me.
◾Go to techbuddyishere.blogspot.in
◾What is 13 stones in kilograms?
◾Premier league table.
◾Play Blue Monday.
◾Wake me up in an hour.
◾Call Jenny.
◾Images of the Empire State Building.
◾When will BA 2215 land?
◾When is my next appointment?
◾Remind me to take out the trash when I get home.
◾Launch Google Plus.
◾What’s this song?
A lot of questions Google Now will reply to out loud. When you order it to perform an action, such as calling someone, or launching an app, it will show a loading bar, so you have time to quit if it misinterpreted your request. When you ask “What’s this song?” it will listen for a moment and then tell you, as well as providing a link to buy it in Google Play.
The voice input is generally solid, but much depends on your accent. Background noise can also cause a problem with it interpreting your speech. However, even with a retry, it’s often faster than typing.
The future of Google Now
There are some features in there that don’t seem to work for everybody, or that seem somewhat limited, but have stunning potential. There are also some exciting additions on the way.
One of them seems to pull in the functionality of Google Goggles, so you can use the camera to identify objects. This was rolled out in a previous version of Google Now, but seems to have been removed, possibly because it isn’t ready for prime time. Get the Google Goggles app if you want to try it out. You can still use the “Scan barcode” command to use your camera to scan barcodes within Google Now.
FieldTripYou might be interested in checking out Google’s Field Trip app. It highlights all sorts of cool and interesting things in your immediate vicinity and we can see it being folded in to Google Now at some point.
At Google I/O we got a glimpse of the future for Google Now. You will be able to activate the voice search or commands by saying “OK, Google” and it will anticipate follow up questions and try to provide useful related information before you ask for it. It will also remember your previous questions and handle relatively complex requests. Information and recommendations on music, books, TV shows, and video games that you might like is also rolling out now. We’ll have to check it out before we decide whether it’s advert spam by another route, or genuinely useful.
In any case, it’s clear that Google is committed to improving Now and it already surpasses the competition, if you give it the chance. Half-hearted use of Google Now will not impress, it’s an all or nothing deal if you really want to feel the benefits.
article taken from,
www.digitaltrrend.com
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