Google Boosts Cards for Its Services

Google presented jobs, recipes and merchandise more straightforward by means of including a brand new function to its Search. The firm is increasing the capability of Activity Cards to lend a hand customers to find recipes, jobs and merchandise simply.

According to Google, this may lend a hand customers see and examine all of the merchandise they’re focused on and lend a hand them decide sooner.

The card will even inform customers what number of new jobs had been indexed particularly periods in line with customers hobby. According to the corporate, this may make it more straightforward for customers to search out new alternatives to discover as an alternative of going thru all of the posts to discover a new one.

According to finance yahoo, these updates are rolling out today. If you’re not interested in seeing activity cards, you can turn off private results in your Search settings. You can also remove inpidual items that pop up on the recipe and product cards, and delete your job searches from the My Activity.

Elsewhere, you now have the option of sending audio messages via Google Assistant on Android phones solely using your voice. All you have to do is say, “Hey Google, send an audio message,” along with the name of the recipient and what you want to tell them.

The feature is live in English-speaking countries, and in Brazil in Portuguese.

Later, Google is planning to replace Duo with Meet. Duo to be phased out after only being on the market for a few years (Duo launched in 2016.) Its rumored demise has reportedly come as a surprise to the Duo team themselves, according to 9to5Google.

Also, it will see some of Duo’s features integrated into Meet, including end-to-end encryption, 3D effects, and contacting users for a video via phone number.

Meet integrated into Gmail and has received a number of features as Google looks to compete with Zoom. With a reported growth of 3 million users each day in April, it’s clear that Meet has a chance at becoming the market leader for video conferencing.

Unfortunately, its popularity may come at the expense of Duo, which means we’ll soon add Duo to the heap of other canceled Google services, which these days is a long.

On other hand, Google did add that it’s looking at ways that our video calling products can improve alongside one another,” which could be a hint that Duo and Meet will eventually merge.

Later, An email was dispatched to “active” users of Google classic Sites detailing its retirement, which will take place over the next year.

The email, which had the subject line “Migrate your classic sites to new Google Sites,” headlined that the service will be fully shut down on September 1, 2021. To begin this transition, classic Sites creation will be disabled on November 1, 2020, after which point users will have a little under a year to move to the new Sites.

The launch of the Classic Sites Manager, which aims to assist in the conversion of classic Sites to new Sites. It allows you to convert, archive, or delete any classic Sites on your account, as well as export a spreadsheet of all your sites to Google Sheets. Users are encouraged to begin their transition today to avoid disruptions in the future.