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From Android apps and games to YouTube, it’s time for annual recaps and Google has released its 2022 Year in Search. Powered by Google Trends, the top trending searches list now includes Google Lens and Hum to Search. Besides text queries, Google is now sharing the top searched plants and fungi, pets, and houseplants. The three lists below reflect global results: Google Lens: Top searched…

The latest AI-generated Memory flipbook appearing in Google Photos is the “Best of Autumn 2022” collection, which is rolling out right now. Over the past 12 months, we’ve seen Google Photos increase the instances of custom Memories collections along the top “story” pane within the pre-installed gallery app. The result is more targeted personal content that is collated based upon the…

Back in June, we noted that Google is no longer developing “Assistant Memory,” and the Collections feature that it would have presumably replaced is now seeing a redesign. Collections is Google’s integrated bookmarking feature that surfaces saves from Search, Discover, and Maps. It was updated last September to be slightly more automated.  The latest redesign significantly simplifies…

There’s nothing wrong with adding a little flare here and there to your comments. Now, users can add custom-made stickers and emotes to YouTube comments in both videos and on streams. Emoji have long been made available to users commenting on YouTube videos and streams. To add to that plethora of reactions, YouTube has added a library of custom emoji that can be sent via comments. Much like…