Go
edition
About:
Google announced a
comprehensive network of Wi-Fi hotspots on Thursday in the African country of
Nigeria as part of its Google station project. The lightweight version of
Google Apps and services, popularly called Go Edition, is getting new features
in their latest updates. In the event, the technical giant has also revealed
updates coming to their Google Go, Google Maps Go, and YouTube Go apps and
Google Search. Users can share videos through different apps and delete them at
once. Once shared, the video will only be eligible to run in the YouTube Go
app. The Google Go app now has the ability to read pages by highlighting each
word in the process. According to the company, read-out of the facility will be
available in 28 languages in the coming weeks.
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Google adding new features to Go edition |
Features include:
The latest update to the YouTube Go app now allows users to
browse the downloaded video (in .yt file format) in the phone's Gallery app.
However, users have to use the YouTube Go app to play them.
Main points:
1. Updates to Google for the
Nigeria program were announced
2.YouTube Go is getting a new
file extension
3.Google Go is getting a new
webpage dictation feature
Google Go:
Go to the app for smartphones
with low RAM and inbuilt storage. This feature will allow the app to highlight
webpages and highlight each word to follow the readers. This will be available
for billions of pages in 28 languages in the coming weeks.
Google search:
Especially in Nigeria, Google
Search is getting the ability to identify health problems by entering the
symptoms, and a new recipe search experience. Job search will be expanded in
more than 32 countries in Africa. Google has also announced that it has trained
more than 2.5 million African people as part of its digital skill program, and
is expected to reach 10 million soon. Twelve startups have already graduated
and have created 132 jobs in funding with a total of $ 7 million (about Rs 48.1
crore). More than 9,000 developers have been certified by the continent from
the continent.
Go Google Maps:
Google Maps Go does not offer
real-time navigation capabilities, its biggest drawback. Finally Google added
the Turn-by-Turn Navigation Voice Guidance. Voice guidance is available in more
than 50 languages. However, users need to manually add the language of their
choice. But, with the latest announcements, Google has brought real-time
navigation in the Android Go ecosystem as a navigation for the Google Maps Go
app, which will allow users to receive real-time navigation features,
alternately guides Also on the handset with limited RAM and unstable network
connections, whether it is car, bus, train or hiking.
Go to YouTube:
Available on a smartphone
running Android Oreo (Go Edition), YouTube Go is getting a new video file
extension as .yt. With this new format, the videos made available offline on
the YouTube Go app will be available for access to the phone's default Gallery
app.