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Here are the 3 most important Google Search announcements

folarin okunola

July 31, 2017 8:51 AM

At its biggest event ever in Nigeria, Google announced new, key features of its Search product, tailored for Nigeria.

Tamar Yehoshua (VP product management, Google Search) speaking on new Search features at Google For Nigeria

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Google Search is one of Google’s top products and one of the company’s top execs, Tamar Yehoshua (VP product management, Search), was on hand to reveal the new features of the product tailored for the Nigerian market.

Here are the three most important announcements:

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Yehoshua announced a new feature of Search called “

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Yehoshua also talked about the new Google Feed which has been slightly redesigned and also demoed how much better the Google Assistant has gotten with voice search. It now understands standard Nigerian accent although it struggles a bit with indigenous names and similar things like that.

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