Does having Google currents enabled help with Google now info?

[ryanr509]

I'm wondering if having Google currents enabled will help with the speed and accuracy for some of the info that Google now updates u with like the sports and news?

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[anon(847090)]

I'm wondering if having Google currents enabled will help with the speed and accuracy for some of the info that Google now updates u with like the sports and news?

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Nope.
google now is better when location service and web history is enabled.

 

[ryanr509]

Alright I don't really use GPS but I have WiFi and cellular data on at all times. What do u mean by web history? Is this in Google now settings?

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[anon(847090)]

Alright I don't really use GPS but I have WiFi and cellular data on at all times. What do u mean by web history? Is this in Google now settings?

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web history and location service can be enabled from web too

go here and check if it is enabled
https://history.google.com/history/settings?hl=en

Location history (sorry i said location service) can be enabled here
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/settings

 

[zkSharks]

As far as I know, Google Now uses the Google News content base for its news references. I know that Google Now will display cards when news items you've read have been updated, and I've had such cards appear after browsing items on the desktop and mobile Google News sites in Chrome.

I have not, however, tried to see if Google Currents will trigger the same behavior. It's a good question; I'm going to try it out today.

 

[anon(847090)]

As far as I know, Google Now uses the Google News content base for its news references. I know that Google Now will display cards when news items you've read have been updated, and I've had such cards appear after browsing items on the desktop and mobile Google News sites in Chrome.

I have not, however, tried to see if Google Currents will trigger the same behavior. It's a good question; I'm going to try it out today.

True google now uses Google news for news and updates but how does it know that your interest in articles?? using web history.
This is true for many other apps like Maps, stock search

do this, go to google.com in web. login with your account that's used in your android.

search GOOG which is the stock of google. if web History is enabled you will get stock price of google on Google Now.
if the web history is disabled you wont get it. go here to verfy https://history.google.com/history/lookup?hl=en

if you delete that GOOG entry from the link above google stock will stop appearing on Google Now.

same with maps. if you search for a location and get direction an entry will be there on web history and Google now uses that search to give you an option to navigate to that place.
same with News.

 

[zkSharks]

True google now uses Google news for news and updates but how does it know that your interest in articles?? using web history.
This is true for many other apps like Maps, stock search

do this, go to google.com in web. login with your account that's used in your android.

search GOOG which is the stock of google. if web History is enabled you will get stock price of google on Google Now.
if the web history is disabled you wont get it. go here to verfy https://history.google.com/history/lookup?hl=en

if you delete that GOOG entry from the link above google stock will stop appearing on Google Now.

same with maps. if you search for a location and get direction an entry will be there on web history and Google now uses that search to give you an option to navigate to that place.
same with News.

Google Now uses your web history to identify searches made and pages visited using browsers, but Google Now does get information from other sources. The question being asked here is more of "will Google Currents trigger Google Now's news updates?" And I suppose that the answer is yes, if Google Currents does indeed leave corresponding records in your web history or in any other data sourced used by Now. I'm guessing by your response, still1, that the answer is "no," meaning Google Currents doesn't leave an indication of which news articles you've viewed?

If that's the case, I do still expect such integration to be added in the future. Now is still a relatively new service, and they're expanding it at a decent pace -- even possibly bringing Google Now to the desktop version of Chrome in the future.