Now you can get transit schedules by just asking Google. Tap the microphone on the Google Search app and say, “From New York City to Boston by train.” You’ll see detailed transit routes with schedules, fares, and even a countdown timer for the next train. And if the train ever gets delayed due to a maintenance issue or an accident, you’ll see a status alert in the results. 

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The Plus in Google Plus? It’s Mostly for Google http://nyti.ms/1dwpoFs

Google Plus may not be much of a competitor to Facebook as a social network, but it is central to Google’s future — a lens that allows the company to peer more broadly into people’s digital life, and to gather an ever-richer trove of the personal information that advertisers covet. Some analysts even say that Google understands more about people’s social activity than Facebook does.

The reason is that once you sign up for Plus, it becomes your account for all Google products, from Gmail to YouTube to maps, so Google sees who you are and what you do across its services, even if you never once return to the social network itself.

Before Google released Plus, the company might not have known that you were the same person when you searched, watched videos and used maps. With a single Plus account, the company can build a database of your affinities. Read more: http://nyti.ms/1dwpoFs

Dass es nun eine manuelle Maßnahme gibt, heißt auch, dass es die Möglichkeit für einen Antrag auf Überprüfung gibt. Wichtig!