Google is rolling out an update for its voice search feature that lets you ask your phone questions about nearby locations without providing specifics.
Standing in front of a restaurant? You can ask Google want time it opens without naming the restaurant. Want to know about a nearby river, museum, or building but don’t know it’s name? Google can help you with that.
Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan attended an event in Paris where Google showed off the new features. Here are a few examples of things that you can ask with location-aware search:
- What’s the name of this church?
- When does this restaurant open?
- How tall is this? (When standing in front of a tower)
- What’s the name of this park?
- How deep is this lake?
- What’s the name of this creek?
- How long is this river?
Want to call the front desk of the conference center you’re currently standing in? A Google rep did just that while showing off the feature at a conference.
Google hadn’t officially announced the location-aware search features until now, but the company reportedly started rolling location-aware search out to Android and iOS users a few weeks ago.
OK, Google, what is the speed limit on this road.
Very useful with just a dash of creepy.
Isn’t that Google’s tag line?
I guess so. I have been moving away from google products whenever possible over the last year or so. It is amazingly difficult to do. Still using Google products more than I would like.