What Google Just Announced Is a Bombshell

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Post by neilunadkat12 » Fri, May 29, 2015, 10:17 AM UTC

What Google Just Announced Is a Bombshell
bloomberg.com

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Post by thescrewdriver » Fri, May 29, 2015, 10:23 AM UTC

Sounds more creepy than anything else. Why would I want Google examining text elements in every app I'm using?

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Post by SQL2219 » Fri, May 29, 2015, 10:27 AM UTC

Wow a persistent pop-up on all your apps, what a great idea.

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Post by wingerlang » Fri, May 29, 2015, 10:51 AM UTC

thescrewdriver wrote: post #2

Sounds more creepy than anything else. Why would I want Google examining text elements in every app I'm using?

Because you specifically asked it to do just that?

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Post by wingerlang » Fri, May 29, 2015, 10:52 AM UTC

SQL2219 wrote: post #3

Wow a persistent pop-up on all your apps, what a great idea.

Seems literally no different from having access to notification center on your phone. In terms of the "always there" point you're making.

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Post by qubex » Fri, May 29, 2015, 10:53 AM UTC

Another great entry to the gallery of over-hyped, poorly thought-out clickbait.

What this is, as far as I can understand, is a creepy, invasive ‘service’ that for the benefit of alleviating the users of the need to select whatever text they are interested in finding out more about and pasting it into a search-box will cost them an eternal window into their behaviour in the context of whichever app they are using.

Also, it seems to me that this is the ultimate defeat for Google, not a stunning advance: retreating to the God Of The Gaps.

I might be wrong (I usually am), but “oh wow” was not the first thing I thought when I heard of this, it was more along the lines of “oh yuck”. For how much longer will Android/Google users realise that they are the product and that all these actions are simply aimed at mining them more deeply?

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Post by thescrewdriver » Fri, May 29, 2015, 11:17 AM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #4

thescrewdriver wrote: post #2

Sounds more creepy than anything else. Why would I want Google examining text elements in every app I'm using?

Because you specifically asked it to do just that?

Which is likely going to be on and harvesting my data by default, just like gmail.

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Post by VikingCoder » Fri, May 29, 2015, 11:26 AM UTC

thescrewdriver wrote: post #7

wingerlang wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you specifically asked it to do just that?

Which is likely going to be on and harvesting my data by default, just like gmail.

In the demos, you're holding down the home button on your phone.

I'm guessing Now on Tap doesn't scan content, until you activate it.

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Post by ramon » Fri, May 29, 2015, 11:46 AM UTC

Coming up on Tap: What's Jessica Alba doing right now?

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Post by thescrewdriver » Fri, May 29, 2015, 12:57 PM UTC

VikingCoder wrote: post #8

thescrewdriver wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is likely going to be on and harvesting my data by default, just like gmail.

In the demos, you're holding down the home button on your phone. I'm guessing Now on Tap doesn't scan content, until you activate it.

Surely it would be to Google's advantage to scan as much as they can in the background for targeting ads, even if they actual search is activated on demand.