Allo is determined, almost entirely, by Google Assistant, the virtual assistant of the Mountain View that will allow you to search, know directions, share videos or anything else you usually do from Google Now in a chat with a friend or family member. This is its greatest virtue and for which Google is making every effort to compete against the most popular of the moment such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Line among many others.
This is why we are going to comment on some of the uses that can be given to Google Assistant (you can meet the rest of the app here) and that can help so that they can form specialized groups on a topic. Allo will serve to be able to share all kinds of content from the same chat in which you can search for cooking recipes, order at home or know the delicacies of an exotic dish. It is an app that, when you use Google Assistant, you will find another way to enjoy a message either accompanied by a contact or in a group with more friends or family.
How to launch Google Assistant in a chat
To be able to launch Google Assistant in a chat you must type the at sign, so that the window appears suggesting the command @google. With this command already typed, every time you write, it will launch an action related to what you put in.
This can be from searching for a video on YouTube, using the typical Google search, show how to get from one city to another to show it on a map or even tell you a joke. But the best is yet to fall, since the moment Google Assistant launches a search result, it will determine, by context, a series of suggestions that you can click to launch more related content.
Google Assistant will learn more and more the more searches you carry out about you, apart from the fact that it is important that, in each one of the searches made, you click on the "I like" or "I don't like". In this way you will know if the search result has had to do with what we wanted when we started that action.
Perfect for groups with a certain theme
Another of its qualities is that it offers a level of response as if we were talking to a real person. Something that gives him his that and that almost allows us to have a half relationship with the virtual assistant. You also have to know that we are on a path that Google Assistant has just started in Allo that will continue to be improved over time, so who knows the contact we will have with this app and Google Assistant in the near future.
I think one of the best qualities of Assistant is in a group to be determined for a specific topic. I have first given the example of a gastronomy group, but you can imagine yourself for a travel group, in which we can explore exotic cities and places, know plane schedules or what kind of food there is in a certain country. In short, it enriches the content that is offered from a chat window that until now was limited to animated GIFs, YouTube videos, emoticons and those stickers, if we relate it to Telegram.
I can only recommend that you try it and spend a few minutes with a friend or a group to learn everything that this Google Assistant in Allo can have in store for us. It is a messaging app that will have a difficult time, but perhaps, thanks to the ease of inviting other users who have an Android device, things will go well and in a short time more and more will use it. We already know that will depend on your popularity to make it a success. So don't waste your time and ask Google Assistant to tell you a joke, show you some funny YouTube video, or show you photos from your next vacation trip.
