Few will argue that this year’s I/O keynote was Google’s flashiest yet. If you were expecting people to jump out of blimps to bring you a new version of Google Glass, the event surely left you disappointed. Instead, Google used its relatively low-key keynote to announce an evolutionary update to its mobile operating system, a new effort to bring Android to the internet of things and a number of new tools for developers to better monetize, advertise and analyze their apps.
The three new products that stuck out for me on the consumer side of Google’s announcement, though, were Google Photos, Now on Tap in Android M, and — though it wasn’t announced in the keynote — the latest update to inbox of gmail. To some degree, all of them draw on the natural language understanding, deep machine learnings expertise, and immense Knowledge Graph database Google has focused on so much in recent years.
Google photos, for example, features what is undoubtedly the best photo search engine currently available. Just do a search for ‘trees,’ ‘flowers,’ or ‘mountains’ and see what it finds in your photo collections. Photos, of course, is the stand-alone version of the photo feature of Google+, which was already able to do much of this, but the company has improved search in this version.
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