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re: Google Now. The only ways I've seen it noticeable function is when you leave your current "home location" and if you turn on your Google web history (on the

re: Google Now. The only ways I've seen it noticeable function is when you leave your current "home location" and if you turn on your Google web history (on the account that is tied to Chrome on the Nexus 7). Since I neither leave my home location often nor want to turn on web history, for either of my accounts, it's relatively useless for me.

darklajid 14y ago
For me, so far, it shows me - Commuting times to several places Here I don't know where it takes the address from. In the beginning it listed a couple off-by-one addresses for friends and family, by now (how..?) it resolved two of these addresses to contact names, so I have now a travel plan to visit my brother, dad or my company. It also includes a wrong address of my in-laws. This is impressive, technically, but a little creepy and totally, 100% useless for me. I _was_ at these places, but I really don't plan to go there again anytime soon. Why is this listed? - The weather, for the local town I'm in. The Standard Thing (tm) - A Google Translate widget to translate between German and English. I .. feel insulted. ;-) I used Google Translate a lot, in Israel, for Hebrew <-> English. German <-> English? I can do that myself, thank you very much. Why is this listed? - A widget that lists the exchange rate between EUR and ILS. Yes, I used to be interested in that, up until I moved back to Germany more than a month ago. Why is this listed? - The time and day of week. Off by one hour. Again - no clue why. But this at least gives a hint: Somehow Google decided that I'm still living in Israel. It shows me currency exchange rates, the time at 'home' and a translator widget (why between english and the local language though?). My problem: I don't want _any_ of that. Mostly not because I don't feel that they add anything of value (they don't, for me), more because ~everything~ listed there is irrelevant/wrong. Since the whole idea of Google Now seems to be a magic sauce trying to find stuff that you want to be informed about, I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here.
- wickedchicken 14y ago
  > I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here. Try latitude -> location history -> menu button -> change home location.
  - darklajid 14y ago
    Whoa, thanks. I wasn't able to follow your instructions (I tried finding a setting like that on my mobile or the tablet, but failed), but the location history (that clicked!) website's dashboard allowed me to redefine 'home'.
    - sogrady 14y ago
      you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.
      - taligent 14y ago
        It's not technically impressive and odd they would be getting it wrong. They know where your hits are coming from and the WiFi/GPS information on mobile. If a Maps app can it get right 100% of the time why can't Google ?
        sogrady 14y ago
        GPS location is, agreed, not technically impressive. but successfully leveraging location history alongside of real time traffic data to intuit home and work addresses and the drive times between them with zero user input and an acceptably high level of accuracy seems somewhat impressive here.
      - darklajid 14y ago
        Hmm.. Those settings on the cards seem (so far, as far as I can tell, insert disclaimer about being new to the tablet and all) only affect the parameters of this _type_ of card. So I can say when ('before commute' and other opaque event like names) a card should show up, how important the content is .. but I haven't found any setting in Google Now that actually allows me to change the content (remove that listed location, add a different one, change my home address..), the data itself.

darklajid 14y ago

For me, so far, it shows me - Commuting times to several places Here I don't know where it takes the address from. In the beginning it listed a couple off-by-one addresses for friends and family, by now (how..?) it resolved two of these addresses to contact names, so I have now a travel plan to visit my brother, dad or my company. It also includes a wrong address of my in-laws. This is impressive, technically, but a little creepy and totally, 100% useless for me. I _was_ at these places, but I really don't plan to go there again anytime soon. Why is this listed? - The weather, for the local town I'm in. The Standard Thing (tm) - A Google Translate widget to translate between German and English. I .. feel insulted. ;-) I used Google Translate a lot, in Israel, for Hebrew <-> English. German <-> English? I can do that myself, thank you very much. Why is this listed? - A widget that lists the exchange rate between EUR and ILS. Yes, I used to be interested in that, up until I moved back to Germany more than a month ago. Why is this listed? - The time and day of week. Off by one hour. Again - no clue why. But this at least gives a hint: Somehow Google decided that I'm still living in Israel. It shows me currency exchange rates, the time at 'home' and a translator widget (why between english and the local language though?). My problem: I don't want _any_ of that. Mostly not because I don't feel that they add anything of value (they don't, for me), more because ~everything~ listed there is irrelevant/wrong. Since the whole idea of Google Now seems to be a magic sauce trying to find stuff that you want to be informed about, I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here.

wickedchicken 14y ago
> I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here. Try latitude -> location history -> menu button -> change home location.
- darklajid 14y ago
  Whoa, thanks. I wasn't able to follow your instructions (I tried finding a setting like that on my mobile or the tablet, but failed), but the location history (that clicked!) website's dashboard allowed me to redefine 'home'.
  - sogrady 14y ago
    you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.
    - taligent 14y ago
      It's not technically impressive and odd they would be getting it wrong. They know where your hits are coming from and the WiFi/GPS information on mobile. If a Maps app can it get right 100% of the time why can't Google ?
      - sogrady 14y ago
        GPS location is, agreed, not technically impressive. but successfully leveraging location history alongside of real time traffic data to intuit home and work addresses and the drive times between them with zero user input and an acceptably high level of accuracy seems somewhat impressive here.
    - darklajid 14y ago
      Hmm.. Those settings on the cards seem (so far, as far as I can tell, insert disclaimer about being new to the tablet and all) only affect the parameters of this _type_ of card. So I can say when ('before commute' and other opaque event like names) a card should show up, how important the content is .. but I haven't found any setting in Google Now that actually allows me to change the content (remove that listed location, add a different one, change my home address..), the data itself.