Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

Google is updating its Android Studio developer environment with a whole slew of upgrades under the hood that’ll make it faster. The company unveiled the new tool at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View. Making the developer experience easier is critical to companies like Google to encourage developers to build apps Android-first, which is important to capture moments… Read More... →

Mobile apps often provide a better user experience than browser-based web apps, but you first have to find them, download them, and then try not to forget you installed them. Now, Google wants us to rethink what mobile apps are and how we interact with them. Instant Apps, a new Android feature Google announced at its I/O developer conference today but plans to roll out very slowly, wants… Read More... →

Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014, it already offered developers a dedicated platform and SDK for building mobile apps; today it is greatly expanding this service by launching a number of new features and integrating the service deeper into the rest of its cloud tools. The new Firebase,… Read More... →

In what’s become the Google I/O defining moment, the company kicked off the 2012 event with a series of skydivers, bikers, and climbers to debut the hot newness that was Project Glass (hindsight, etc.). Two years later, Google went all Oprah on everyone and sent I/O attendees home with Cardboard headsets of their very own – this was, mind you, back in the days before the system… Read More... →

Google’s Android Wear smartwatch platform launched more than two years ago and it’s now supported by more than a dozen brands and runs on more than 100 watch designs. Today, the company took the wraps off version 2.0 of Android Wear, the biggest update of the platform yet. Google will release the developer preview of Wear 2.0 at I/O, but it’ll take until the fall before… Read More... →

В операционной системе Android N появится система защиты приложений SafetyNet, которая будет следить за приложениями на устройстве. Об этом представители компании заявили на презентации в ходе конференции Google I/O.... →

How big is the Android app ecosystem? Google gave an update on this today at its Google I/O Developer conference, when VP of Engineering Dave Burke announced 65 billion installs from Google Play over the past year. “There were 65 billion installs in the last year alone. And I’m just in constantly in awe of all the amazing apps and services that’s fueling this,” he… Read More... →

Google на конференции разработчиков Google I/O в Калифорнии представила устройство Google Home — голосовой помощник для дома. Ожидается, что он станет доступен для покупки до конца 2016 года.... →

Google представила ещё один сервис для обмена сообщениями — Allo. Представители компании называют его «умным» мессенджером.Также компания анонсировала приложение для видеозвонков Duo.... →

You get to choose the name of Google’s next Android release. Traditionally, every Android release is named after something sweet: Marshmallow, Lollipop, KitKat, Jelly Bean, etc. Previews are always named after the next letter in the alphabet at first (N, in the case of the latest release); Google then announces the full name shortly before the final release. This time, the rumor… Read More... →

We don’t know if Google will launch its own virtual reality headset at its I/O developer conference this year, but Android N, the next version of the company’s mobile operating system, will feature a special mode for VR apps. Read More... →

As expected, Google made Android N, the next version of its mobile operating system, a cornerstone of its I/O keynote today. With Android N, Google moved to a very different release cycle compared to previous releases. While I/O is usually the place for Google to share a first look at new versions of Android, it actually released a first preview of N a few months ago. This was also the… Read More... →

Some have criticised Google for falling behind when it comes to social networking and new communications services, but the company is how working hard to catch up. Today, the company announced a new video calling app called Duo — a high-definition app for Android and iOS devices. Duo was unveiled on the heels of Allo, Google’s new smart messaging app. Why the decision to launch… Read More... →

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Today at I/O, Google took the wraps off its latest foray into the world of communications: the company announced Allo, a smart messaging app supercharged with machine learning and Google’s new Google Assistant service (its answer to Google’s Alexa), giving users the ability not just to chat to each other, but to call in Google (and later other third-party apps) to share… Read More... →

Google объявила о выпуске голосового помощника Google Assistant, который понимает вопросы пользователя и напоминает аналогичный сервис от Apple — Siri. Презентация состоялась в ходе конференции Google I/O.... →

At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today unveiled a new hardware device and competitor to Amazon Echo, a portable speaker powered by voice assistance technology called Google Home. The device was widely rumored to have been in development under the codename “Chirp,” and the final product name was recently confirmed by The New York Times. Google Home Features… Read More... →

Google today said it was unveiling a virtual assistant tool at its annual developer conference in Mountain View. This appears to be similar to what Google Now can do already, but it appears to be an upgraded verison of it. You can ask a question for an answer, and follow up with multiple questions, with Google picking the conversation out and returning the right answer. “Think of… Read More... →

As expected, Google has added a feature to the Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console to filter out how your AMP pages are doing.... →

Теперь результаты поисковой выдачи Google выглядят шире привычных, так как изменена ширина колонки с 512px до 600px. Если совсем недавно в отображаемый тайтл сайтов вмещалось около 60 символов (когда-то было до 70, но потом увеличили размер шрифта), то сейчас снова около 70 символов. Со средней длиной слова в русском языке 7.2 символа получается, что в тайтл можно вместить до 10 слов. При этом, количество учитываемых в тайтле слов так и осталось – 12 первых слов (остальные воспринимаются как текст). Почему ... →