Google's
Neighbourly app expands to 5 more Indian cities
The Neighbourly app, which helps users with local information
like nearby shopping arcades, parks, fitness, food and tuition centres, was
launched by Google in beta in May and is now available in seven cities.
Google is
expanding its Neighbourly app to five more Indian cities including
Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Mysore, Vizag and Kota.
The app, which helps users with local information like nearby shopping arcades, parks, fitness, food and tuition centres, was launched by Google in beta in May and is now available in seven cities.
"With 'Neighbourly', we are able to address the local information needs of India's fast-growing internet users in their neighbourhood," Josh Woodward, Group Product Manager, Next Billion Users team, Google, said in a statement on Wednesday.
The latest version of the application includes improved voice input, thus, enabling people to ask and respond to questions in their own languages, quicker replies and "similar answers" feature -- that would detect and group similar answers.
"The app was first rolled out to Mumbai and Jaipur and 20% of people tap to speak their question and each question, spoken or written, gets an average of four relevant, trusted answers," Google said. It added that users in Mumbai and Jaipur have sought answers to questions around local shopping, food recommendations and tuition centres.
The Internet giant said the app rollout took place following extensive user testing in the past several months, where Google's "Next Billion Users" team conducted a series of studies and spoke to locals in neighbourhoods.
"The dynamics of these cities attracted Google's Next Billion Users team, and they conducted a series of studies and spoke to locals in neighbourhoods... people appreciated using their local language to ask questions to their neighbours and sharing their own knowledge with others," it said.
"The response was encouraging -- especially among women, students and daily commuters -- and people appreciated using their local language to ask questions to their neighbours and sharing their own knowledge with others," the Internet major added in a statement.
The app, which helps users with local information like nearby shopping arcades, parks, fitness, food and tuition centres, was launched by Google in beta in May and is now available in seven cities.
"With 'Neighbourly', we are able to address the local information needs of India's fast-growing internet users in their neighbourhood," Josh Woodward, Group Product Manager, Next Billion Users team, Google, said in a statement on Wednesday.
The latest version of the application includes improved voice input, thus, enabling people to ask and respond to questions in their own languages, quicker replies and "similar answers" feature -- that would detect and group similar answers.
"The app was first rolled out to Mumbai and Jaipur and 20% of people tap to speak their question and each question, spoken or written, gets an average of four relevant, trusted answers," Google said. It added that users in Mumbai and Jaipur have sought answers to questions around local shopping, food recommendations and tuition centres.
The Internet giant said the app rollout took place following extensive user testing in the past several months, where Google's "Next Billion Users" team conducted a series of studies and spoke to locals in neighbourhoods.
"The dynamics of these cities attracted Google's Next Billion Users team, and they conducted a series of studies and spoke to locals in neighbourhoods... people appreciated using their local language to ask questions to their neighbours and sharing their own knowledge with others," it said.
"The response was encouraging -- especially among women, students and daily commuters -- and people appreciated using their local language to ask questions to their neighbours and sharing their own knowledge with others," the Internet major added in a statement.
https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/mobile/googles-neighbourly-app-expands-to-5-more-indian-cities/65792889
ETtech | September 13,
2018
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