Google’s ‘Neighbourly’ app now in 5 more Indian cities

San Francisco: Google’s “Neighbourly” app, which helps users with local information like nearby shopping arcades, parks, fitness, food and tuition centres is now rolling out to Indian cities such as Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Mysore, Vizag, and Kota.The beta version of “Neighbourly” is available on the Google Play Store for all Android devices across these seven cities in India.

“With ‘Neighbourly’, we are able to address the local information needs of India’s fast-growing internet users in their neighbourhood,” Josh Woodward, Group Product Manager, Next Billion Users team, Google, said in a statement on Wednesday.

The latest version of the application includes enhanced voice input, thus, allowing people to ask and respond to questions in their own languages, quicker replies and “similar answers” feature — that would detect and group similar answers. (IANS)