Google for India 2022: Fraud Detection in Google Pay and More Announcements
Dec. 20, 2022Google has introducedfraud detection on Google Pay, which will notify users of possible fraudulent behavior in their preferred language or a vibration. Google Pay will also showcase the transaction history and even ask about spending.
It has also integratedDigiLocker in the Files app on Androidas part of its collaboration with the National eGovernance Division (NeGD). This will allow users to directly access their important documents like their driver’s licenses, Aadhaar cards, and more.
All the documents will be organized and easily searchable. Plus, Google’s custom AI model will identify important documents and even arranges them in a simple view. The usage will be offline and all the documents will be safe. Users will also be able to organize their family’s documents too and can protect the documents folder with a passcode.
Google Search has a few new changes too. India has now got Google Search’sMulti-search feature, which enables visual and text-based searches at the same time. Just use the camera in the Google app to look for something using an image and text to get the desired results.Multi-search is now available in Englishand more languages will be supported soon.
Search also has the ‘Search in video’ feature to look for a specific thing in a video.Google Search is also bilingual, making it easier for people to look for stuff in their preferred language alongside English. This feature now supports Hindi and will get support for Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and Bengali in the coming year.
More Google Initiatives…
Google has also collaborated with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for its Project Vaani to collect and transcribe open-source speech data from across all of India’s 773 districts. The data will be available to the Government of India’s Bhashini project in the future.
It has also announced a new model to better understand the farming landscape in India. Using AI and machine learning, this model will be able to provide information on the various conditions of a farm. This model is being piloted by the government of Telangana.
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