Google Now Adds TV, Movies, News Topics, Blog Posts, Waze Data, In Store Pick Up Reminders & More
Google announced improvements to Google Now for Android users. The new update brings more Google Now cards to Android users including: Website update card can bring you things like the latest post so you’ll never miss a story. News topic card brings you fresh articles from the web on topics you care about. What to […]
Barry Schwartz on November 14, 2013 at 9:12 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google announced improvements to Google Now for Android users. The new update brings more Google Now cards to Android users including:
- Website update card can bring you things like the latest post so you’ll never miss a story.
- News topic card brings you fresh articles from the web on topics you care about.
- What to watch card gives you Movie and TV recommendations when you’re staying in.
- Traffic with Waze card where you can see traffic incidents on your commute using real-time data from Waze
- Reminders update where you can set repeat reminders
- Rugby scores to get real time scores for rugby teams
- In Store Pickup cards to see when your packages are ready for in-store pickup.
The update is within the overall Google Search for Android app update, which you can download via Google Play.
Here are some screen shots as an animated GIF:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.