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Google Now gets cards from Airbnb, Lyft, Pandora and more
Information and actions from the top Android apps will now show up in Google's personal assistant dashboard.
Your favorite Android apps are teaming up with Google Now. The Google-powered personal assistant, found in the Google app, is getting special cards from 30-plus select apps that will start to show up in your dashboard starting today.
That dashboard is where you can already see sports scores, stock numbers, weather forecasts and more. And now, you'll see cards from select apps already installed on your device that will either show helpful information or give you quick actions that you'd normally have to open the app to do.
For example, the new Airbnb card will show you suggested listings for upcoming trips, or remind you to book a rental if you've searched listings for a specific date. The Instacart card will let you quickly reorder groceries, while the Lyft card will help you hail a car if you caught a Lyft from your home location which you set in the Google app.
A particularly interesting card is from Walgreens, which displays your rewards card barcode. That's very similar to Passbook on iOS, where you can already keep store loyalty cards.
All in all, Google teamed up with 40 apps to bring these special cards to the Google Now dashboard, including Airbnb, Instacart, Runtastic, Lyft, Mint, Hootsuite, Kayak and Ford. Check out all of them onGoogle's website. If you have these apps installed on your Android phone or tablet, the cards will appear automatically when relevant. At any time, you can turn off cards from particular apps from the settings in the Google. You can expect these to show up in your Google app in the coming weeks.
While this is hardly a ground-breaking feature, it does help beef up the Google app, which is already quite helpful for getting directions, finding your parked car, checking calendar reminders, checking TV listings and, of course, searching the Web.
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