Over the past year and a half Google's steadily added new features and cards to its predictive search assistant, Google Now. With Android 4.4 KitKat, the company's taking the opportunity to upgrade Google Now and search on mobile with the goal of "bringing apps and the web together," as Android and Chrome OS chief Sundar Pichai said in a meeting with press today. Search has always been closely tied with Google Now, and it's receiving some much-appreciated attention today. Google is now crawling through mobile apps to find their content and bring features directly to the fore, just like the company has done for years on the web.



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