{"id":7671,"date":"2016-05-18T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/with-new-products-google-flexes-muscles-to-competitors-regulators\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:15:00","slug":"with-new-products-google-flexes-muscles-to-competitors-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/with-new-products-google-flexes-muscles-to-competitors-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"With New Products, Google Flexes Muscles To Competitors, Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Aarti Shahani<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Google Vice President Mario Queiroz talks about the uses of the new Google Home device during the keynote address of the Google I\/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. Eric Risberg\/AP<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Eric Risberg\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The message from Google’s developers’ conference is clear: The company is prepared to take on competitors as well as regulators.<\/p>\n

CEO Sundar Pichai and his team were flexing. Big time.<\/p>\n

Through a litany of product announcements at the so-called I\/O annual conference in Mountain View, Calif. \u2014 messaging apps<\/a>, a personal virtual assistant and a voice-controlled speaker that connects you with it \u2014 the company basically said:<\/p>\n

We can do<\/em> chatbots<\/em> better than Facebook. We can be smarter at home than Amazon Echo<\/a>. Our personal assistant gets trained on Google search, which is more widely used than Microsoft’s Bing. We’ve got you covered on privacy; just like Apple, our new messaging service is getting end-to-end encryption.<\/em><\/p>\n

Google has been under scrutiny from regulators in Europe<\/a> who say its position is too dominant and criticize Google for pulling consumers into bundles of its products.<\/p>\n

Well, it looks like Google won’t stop bundling anytime soon. The personal assistant, which will work through multiple devices, is an effort to deepen the relationship with customers.<\/p>\n

“We want users to have an ongoing two-way dialogue with Google,” Pichai said about the personal assistant<\/a>. “We think of this as building each user their own individual Google.”<\/p>\n

Already 20 percent of queries on Google’s mobile app and Android phones are voice queries \u2014 people saying “OK Google” to summon an older assistant called Google Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company’s been working for years to listen better \u2014 get what you say when you’re in a noisy place, speaking slang like a human and not a robot, working to complete tasks. The assistant is being integrated into a new chatbot app Allo<\/a> that helps you make dinner reservations or buy movie tickets.<\/p>\n

Google is also releasing a new device called Google Home<\/a> to help you manage your domestic life. The company wants Home \u2014 which looks kind of like a white plastic salt shaker \u2014 to have a place at your dinner table and be the all-knowing, helpful extended family you never had.<\/p>\n

“It draws on 17 years of innovation in organizing the world’s information to answer questions which are difficult for other assistants to handle,” said Vice President Mario Queiroz.<\/p>\n

Emphasis on other<\/em>. Google leaders acknowledge: Amazon did it first, with the popular Echo. But they contend their device is smarter \u2014 and it can operate in a network \u2014 taking commands to shut off the lights in one bedroom while playing Spotify in another.<\/p>\n

Google did not announce a release date.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/05\/18\/478562619\/with-new-products-google-flexes-muscles-to-competitors-regulators?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a><\/div>\n
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Google Vice President Mario Queiroz talks about the uses of the new Google Home device during the keynote address of the Google I\/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. Eric Risberg\/AP<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Eric Risberg\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The message from Google’s developers’ conference is clear: The company is prepared to take on competitors as well as regulators.<\/p>\n

CEO Sundar Pichai and his team were flexing. Big time.<\/p>\n

Through a litany of product announcements at the so-called I\/O annual conference in Mountain View, Calif. \u2014 messaging apps<\/a>, a personal virtual assistant and a voice-controlled speaker that connects you with it \u2014 the company basically said:<\/p>\n

We can do<\/em> chatbots<\/em> better than Facebook. We can be smarter at home than Amazon Echo<\/a>. Our personal assistant gets trained on Google search, which is more widely used than Microsoft’s Bing. We’ve got you covered on privacy; just like Apple, our new messaging service is getting end-to-end encryption.<\/em><\/p>\n

Google has been under scrutiny from regulators in Europe<\/a> who say its position is too dominant and criticize Google for pulling consumers into bundles of its products.<\/p>\n

Well, it looks like Google won’t stop bundling anytime soon. The personal assistant, which will work through multiple devices, is an effort to deepen the relationship with customers.<\/p>\n

“We want users to have an ongoing two-way dialogue with Google,” Pichai said about the personal assistant<\/a>. “We think of this as building each user their own individual Google.”<\/p>\n

Already 20 percent of queries on Google’s mobile app and Android phones are voice queries \u2014 people saying “OK Google” to summon an older assistant called Google Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company’s been working for years to listen better \u2014 get what you say when you’re in a noisy place, speaking slang like a human and not a robot, working to complete tasks. The assistant is being integrated into a new chatbot app Allo<\/a> that helps you make dinner reservations or buy movie tickets.<\/p>\n

Google is also releasing a new device called Google Home<\/a> to help you manage your domestic life. The company wants Home \u2014 which looks kind of like a white plastic salt shaker \u2014 to have a place at your dinner table and be the all-knowing, helpful extended family you never had.<\/p>\n

“It draws on 17 years of innovation in organizing the world’s information to answer questions which are difficult for other assistants to handle,” said Vice President Mario Queiroz.<\/p>\n

Emphasis on other<\/em>. Google leaders acknowledge: Amazon did it first, with the popular Echo. But they contend their device is smarter \u2014 and it can operate in a network \u2014 taking commands to shut off the lights in one bedroom while playing Spotify in another.<\/p>\n

Google did not announce a release date.<\/p>\n

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