Google now allows you to search for contacts by their nicknames
On this occasion, the company Google has anticipated its already classic Wednesday of updates by launching a new version of the application of the same name, formerly known as Google Search. A tool that continues to add new features to facilitate all kinds of searches, and that continues to be a source of novelties by carrying within it the assistant Google Now that has so much projection for the future.An update that doesn't attract attention for what it brings to the naked eye, but for what it hides
This is how version 4.4 of the Google application has begun to be distributed for the platform Android A new version whose list of novelties only appears a new feature: the motes or nicknames And, one year after they started to be used in different markets, it seems that this feature is being activated for a good number of more users by this latest update, although the google help page keeps claiming that only for English speaking users With nicknames, the user can create relationshipsenter names and contacts in the Settings menu In this way, when giving voice commands to Google to call a person, create an event and tag them or any other detail, you can use their nurturing name or the term by which they usually refer to that person, knowing that Google was not wrong aráA detail that is not going to solve the lives of users, but that seems to be expanding to more people since it was announced last year.
However, as shown in the media Android Police, where they usually throw a Look under the hood of updates, what's striking about this update is precisely what's left unsaid.
On the one hand, several lines of code have been discovered referring to Trusted Voice An option that was discovered last month and would be Related to the Google smart lock system. Of course, it is still unknown what it is for, and that is that, when it was discovered, it only took the user to the application sound settings menu Something we will have to wait and see what the company is working on Mountain ViewPerhaps related to security and privacy when using voice commands
Along with that question, another disturbing reference has appeared. This time related to a function never seen before. This is Seamless Hotword, about which absolutely nothing is known. Only references to the internal use of this feature that Google is making of it. And it is that the two lines of code in which it appears only show that the company is testing it, although without being able to figure out what it is yet.
In short, an uninteresting update for current users, but it may be the key to what is to come. The new version of the application Google has already been published, arriving progressively and free via Google Play
