Google Action Cards For Android & Search Integration
Google search now better communicates with your Android phone for taking notes, setting alarms, finding your phone and getting directions.
Barry Schwartz on April 24, 2015 at 2:11 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Google announced on Google+ that you can now connect your Google searches to your Android device in the way of action cards. For example, you can search on Google.com for [send directions] and enter the directions you want, then it will give you the option to send it to your phone. Here is an animated GIF from Google on how it conceptually works:
This is very similar to the find my phone Google search query that Google announced last week.
Alex Chitu found additional action cards that integrate with your Android phone. They include [note to self] and [set an alarm in addition to the ones mentioned above:
To make this work, you need to link your Phone to Google search.
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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.