We continue talking about the new Google mobile application. In addition to advanced functions for recommending content that is interesting to you personally, which we talked about in the first part of the review, a very useful section has appeared with tips for helping offline. In fact, this Google Now has left the experimental status and moved to the main application, here built routes are collected, reminders of tickets and calendar events, places, parking and many other useful things. There is nothing particularly new in this. But the discount notification function, in my opinion, is super useful, unparalleled on the market.
European technology is no longer the optimal choice. Expensive labor, high taxes, and strong trade unions are doing their dirty deed – in terms of price / quality ratio, Korean and Chinese factories benefit greatly.
How these tips work: Google tracks the products you watch on Chrome, YouTube, or searches and notifies you when the price of the item you're interested in has dropped. Google differs from existing analogues in two fundamental points:
- Firstly, these are not ad kits. Stores cannot get into recommendations for money;
- secondly, discounts are monitored throughout the Internet, and not in a limited pool of stores, as is the case in Ya.Market and Google Shopping.
Discount hints can be found in the hints section itself, or in the article collections section, news of an ongoing sale appears.
Now such recommendations are rarely given, I would even say too rarely. Obviously, Google does not want to devalue this type of notifications, and only gives a hint when it is sure that the user is interested in this product and the discount is really profitable.
Thanks to such a hint, I very successfully bought 1 + 5 – cheaper than twenty-seven thousand rubles (for version 8/128) and free shipping. This is 5-8 thousand cheaper than the average market prices at that time. I even joked to myself that this is how Google rewarded me for using its services.
If the number of discount tips grows in the future, their accuracy will likely decrease. In the meantime, my Google has never been wrong with the products that I was interested in.
1 – Home / Ribbon; 2 – Hints; 3 – Recent.
New story
The 'Recent' section is the 'History' of a healthy person. The section has been moved to the main page and has become much clearer and more convenient than the 'History' we are used to. Websites are no longer in the form of links, but in the form of saved images. And they are grouped not only by dates, but also by sessions. If, for example, you sat on the phone at lunch for 15 minutes, and after an hour were distracted from work for another 20 minutes, then the sites in history will be displayed in two groups. Very convenient and intuitive.
If you were looking for something in the search, now you immediately see not only the date and time of your visit to google.com, as in the usual 'History', but also the request itself. Of the minuses, I would only note that the sites that you are watching right now fall into this section with a slight delay, to view them, you need to go to History in the mobile Chrome settings.
