Google I/O 2013 keynote

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seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:02:37 PM
Will people talk to their computers in situations when they're not facing a tech fail or PEBKAC?
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:02:45 PM
"All this goodness of conversational search will be coming to your desktops and laptops through Chrome," he says. It uses the "OK Google" interface from Glass.
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:03:25 PM
Looks like we're getting Google Now for desktops...
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:03:37 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:03:51 PM
Google Now:
"The more you use it, the more useful it becomes for you."
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:03:57 PM
Google Now getting reminders
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:04:06 PM
Now you can set reminders with Google Now.
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:04:11 PM
Cards for public transit commute times
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James Martin 5/15/2013 6:04:38 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:04:48 PM
Cards for media: books, movies, TV shows
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:05:10 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:05:25 PM
Johanna Wright takes the stage for a Google Now demo
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:05:48 PM
"Show me things to do in Santa Cruz"
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:06:05 PM
First link
is Yahoo Answers
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:06:13 PM
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:06:49 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:07:12 PM
"How far is it from here?" KG knows that "it" is Santa Cruz and "here" is SF
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:07:32 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:07:34 PM
Wright: "Somehow Google knew 'it' was the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and 'here' is here." It keeps track of your earlier queries for context.
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:08:54 PM
Wright: "Google Now anticipates my information needs."
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:08:58 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:09:09 PM
We wrote about the Knowledge Graph and Voice Recognition and machine learning here: news.cnet.com
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:10:54 PM
What Google is demonstrating here are seriously beefed-up personal assistant features for Google Now. They're launching today.
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:11:18 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:11:26 PM
It's comprehensive. Think Siri plus Google Search.
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:12:25 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:12:44 PM
Wright: "Show me my pictures from New York last year." Her Android phone pulls them up. "I hope you'll see how it's all coming together."
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:13:18 PM
Amit Singhal back on stage now. He says there are still lots of complex scientific problems. "But our investment and commitment to getting there sooner rather than later are immense."
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:14:02 PM
"Search is becoming a beautiful ubiquitous experience... that comes to you across all your screens"
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:14:31 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:15:15 PM
Singhal is promising search will be life-transforming. Now we're moving to some Maps news.
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:15:45 PM
Brian McClendon Google Maps leader, on stage
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:16:36 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:16:47 PM
Ground Truth is basically trying to create a virtual version of the real world.
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:17:08 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:17:18 PM
North Korea was the last of 200 countries to join MapMaker
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:17:50 PM
On Maps: "Geocoded photos change the experience of everything."
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:18:02 PM
Now 50 countries covered with Street View imagery.
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:18:20 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:19:21 PM
Local data, imagery, Street View, and Base Maps underneath it all
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:19:23 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:19:30 PM
By combining data from multiple views of the same areas, Google constructs 3D building data on Google Maps.
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:19:49 PM
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:20:13 PM
"Locating businesses precisely is pretty hard," but Street View makes it better. Google has 40 million businesses in its local database.
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:20:25 PM
more than 1m Web sites have Google Maps embedded
stephen.shankland 5/15/2013 6:20:58 PM
External use of Google Maps on others' Web sites is bigger than Google's own Maps site. No wonder they raised the price of the Maps API.
James Martin 5/15/2013 6:21:30 PM
seth.rosenblatt 5/15/2013 6:21:43 PM
BTW, Street View cars have driven more than 5 million miles