Why trust GreenbotUsing Now for travel is an excellent way to use the company’s search prowess to make your trip less stressful. is also ramping up its voice search capabilities.
According to a + post the you can now ask questions like, “Show me restaurants around my hotel” or “Give me directions to my hotel from here” get answers.
The former will pull up suggestions of local eateries along with reviews, images, information from Zagat. Asking for directions will get directions back to your hotel, which depending on Maps settings could be via mass transit, car, foot, or bicycle.
To make this magic work, you must have Now enabled on your device turn on the rsonal Options setting. This tells to scan your Gmail look for hotel reservations so it will know where you are staying can return accurate results.
Be sure to enable rsonal Results in Now to get location-aware suggestions.
ile the + post details two specific voice comms, it is likely many others would return information as well. For example, I asked to “show me bars around my location” it provided ten different choices (unfortunately it was early in the morning).
Such new features can go live without the need for any kind of app update. It is beneficial to continually try out new voice comms experiment with Now, as is always working to add to its capabilities.
