Tag Archives: Google Search

While we like to refer to Google as an advertising company or the parent of Android, the company made its name in search. Today, Google has detailed some changes coming to search for mobile. Google doesn’t often make big changes to search results presentation, but tends to tweak things in …

SwiftKey under Microsoft’s ownership has continued to provide an excellent option for your keyboard replacement and it’s nice having a well funded competitor to Gboard, even if just to make sure the whole ecosystem continues to improve. In November last year SwiftKey brought inbuilt search to their keyboard, but as …

Remember Google search? Google’s little product that kicked off the whole Google juggernaut thing. Google certainly hasn’t forgotten it and has quietly pushed out a new update to Google search on the Web and mobile that lets you filter search results using a new “Personal tab”. When you search for …

Google’s ‘search index’ is their metaphorical magic beans, and Google is quite literally built on top of it. In what may herald one of the largest single changes to Google’s search index ever, the search giant announced at a recent conference that they will be switching their ‘primary’ search index …

For those not aware of the goings on of the US Presidential race you may have missed that allegations had been made that Google was manipulating their ‘Search’ to help a specific candidate. The allegations centred around the search autocomplete feature not suggesting results that were clearly popular search terms. …

Google is playing with their search results again, this time introducing a way to install apps for Android directly from Google Play just by doing a Google Search for them. First pointed out by Android Police based on a tip, the results are fairly clear for everyone to see, search …

Google’s eponymous app was updated earlier this week, and the folks at Android Police have been able to delve into the update further and find out what Google have packed into the latest update, which takes the app to version 5.4, addressing some bug fixes and including some new features along …

The Google app is an amazing understated app, which handles more and more of the ‘magic’ functions of Android such as sending a text message with your voice, every day. Google has just announced that the Google app can now send text messages using voice commands to a variety of …

Welcome to episode 139 of the Ausdroid podcast! With the excitement of Google I/O behind us, it’s time to turn our attention back to local matters. With the looming launch of the LG G4 in Australia we spent a little time going over what we know about the launch and …

Google is continuing to change their mobile search functions, adding improved functions and for the most part making your life easier each time. The latest tweak which they announced on their Google+ page, is the ability to place orders for takeaway food directly from search results. The service will tie-in …

On the back of the announcement of wider ‘Ok Google’ integration today, Shazam has expanded on their inclusion as one of the first third-party Android apps to include the function. Android users who want to find out the name of a song or artist without the need to find the …

‘Ok Google, Make a Martini’, Ok, Google isn’t actually going to make you a martini (just yet), but if you type in a search query on how to make a martini, Google will now serve you up the instructions. It’s working for a number of drinks – Manhattan, Dark’n’Stormy, Martini …

With all the focus on OTA links, Factory Images for Nexus devices and other updates, the fact that Google showed off their new Search app and functions was sort of missed. But that’s not to say it isn’t worth checking out, because the new update is quite exciting, bringing a …

We’re still finding notable features in the Android Lollipop Developer Preview. This one was pointed out by Ausdroid reader Benjamin, who alerted us to the fact that you can finally use “OK Google” hotword detection while using English (Australia) as your language. You can also configure the Google Search app …

Google has been making it easier for companies and third party developers to take advantage of its newly released products. Providers such as airlines, restaurants and certain event venues take part and open up their own products onto Google’s new services, but its wants more to take part. Google has …