Google introduced a number of new options for its apps and companies at its Google for India 2024 occasion on Thursday. The agency introduced enhancements to Google Pay with help for private and gold loans, and showcased new well being associated options developed in partnership with the well being sector. New options to detect and defend customers from scams had been additionally unveiled by the corporate. Google additionally introduced that it was rolling out help for Gemini Dwell and its AI search overviews in regional languages.
At its annual Google for India occasion in Delhi, the corporate introduced enhancements to the search expertise, together with the power to let clients attain companies instantly through WhatsApp. Beforehand, listings may embody a telephone quantity that may very well be tapped with a purpose to place a name. Google Maps has additionally been up to date with help for real-time alerts for flooding and fog, in keeping with the search large.
The corporate is bringing help for private loans and gold loans on Google Pay, it is Unified Funds Interface (UPI) app. It additionally introduced new partnerships with Aditya Birla Capital Finance for private loans and Muthoot Finance for gold loans. With Google’s revised limits, clients can now entry private loans price as much as Rs. 5 lakh and gold loans price Rs. 50 lakh.
As a part of its DigiKavach initiative, Google says that it saved customers from scams price Rs. 13,000 crore and displayed over 41 million warnings to customers in 2023. Over 170 million fraudulent critiques had been robotically detected and eliminated on Google Maps, in keeping with the corporate. Google says Android customers in India will quickly be protected with a brand new enhanced fraud safety function that forestall customers from sideloading malicious apps that request entry to essential permissions.
Google additionally showcased new well being options built-in by the corporate’s companions, akin to Apollo Hospitals, which is utilizing deep-learning fashions from the corporate to enhance diagnostic companies. The corporate’s AI instruments are additionally enabling help for tuberculosis and most cancers screening in a number of areas — for gratis to sufferers.
Google additionally says it’s rolling out help for Gemini Dwell in eight languages together with Hindi, permitting customers to speak to the AI assistant with real-time responses. AI overviews, one other function that was beforehand accessible in Hindi and English, will quickly be accessible in 4 extra regional languages — Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.
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