Google's new gift: Personal and gold loans will be available on GPay, Maps will give real-time alerts of floods and fog..
Google for India 2024: Google on Thursday announced several new services and features for Indian users. At the Google for India 2024 event, the company said that it is bringing new improvements to Google Pay and now users will be able to take personal and gold loans from it. To detect online scams and protect people from them, the company announced a new feature, which will soon be available for Android users. Google said that its Gemini Live support will now be available in local languages as well.
Real-time alerts of floods and fog will be available on Google Maps.
At the annual Google for India event held in Delhi, the company announced improvements in the Google Search experience. Earlier only the phone number was used to get a place in the Google listing, on which there was an option to call by tapping, now people will also get the option to connect directly on WhatsApp along with calling. Not only this, real-time alerts of flood and fog will come on Google Maps, which will prove useful for people during travel.
The company said that it is bringing the option of personal loans and gold loans on its UPI app Google Pay. It has partnered with Aditya Birla Capital Finance for personal loans and Muthoot Finance for gold loans. With the help of Google Pay, users will be able to take personal loans up to Rs 5 lakh and gold loans up to Rs 50 lakh.
The fraud protection feature will save you from fraudsters!
Google says that its DigiKavach initiative saved users from scams worth Rs 13 thousand crores. The company claimed that in the year 2023, more than 41 million alerts were shown to users to avoid scams. The company said that Android users in India will soon get a new 'Fraud Protection Feature'. This will prevent such apps from being sideloaded on the phone, which may harm the users.
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