Google updated it’s search to include voice searching. While this was available on iOS and Android devices for some time, it is now available on the desktop and allows you to speak naturally to your computer and get answers spoken back to you.
Voice Search taps into Google’s “Knowledge Engine,” a system that acts like Apple’s Siri virtual assistant, and returns a list of results.
To give this a try you will a microphone for your computer and Google’s web browser Chrome and when you go to google.com you will see a microphone icon in the search bar. Click the microphone icon and ask away.
Here’s a couple of fun ones to try:
1) What’s the weather like in Dublin, CA?
2) What is the circumference of the Earth?
3) Who is Daniel Craig?
The following video is a demonstration of the Google Search App on iOS.
Google will be rolling out 41 new features across three major areas of Google+ over the course of the next week.
The stream is setup in a 3 column layout (depending on screen size and orientation) and photos and videos can take the entire width. Hashtags are linked to relevant conversations across Google+.
Google+ users will all have an increase of storage to 15GB for photos as well as automatically backup mobile pictures.
Google unveiled numerous items at its Google I/O 2013 event in San Francisco yesterday. Among many of the new items was the new Google Maps for desktop with unified imagery, new interface, live 3D and more.
The desktop version of Google Maps is brand new from the ground up and includes an improved interface, imagery and services unification and more a personalized experience. The personalized experience will be using the same data Google Now employs.
