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Gemini has long been able to access Workspace apps to give you relevant answers, but Personal Intelligence takes this a step further. It allows the tool to get the full scope of your data to give proactive insights. It can then reason across sources and retrieve specific information. Here are some prompts that Personal Intelligence can power: Based on my delivery and grocery receipts in Gmail, Search history, and YouTube watch history, recommend five YouTube channels that match my cooking style or meal prep vibe. Recommend some documentaries based on what I’ve been curious about. Wha
Google brings Personal Intelligence to the massesDo people really want this?
You can check out the details on YouTube's experimental features page for Premium members. The search bar feels more like something you'd see with Gemini, allowing users to have a conversation in order to get the results they are looking for. When searching on YouTube, users will be hit with text, images, and even video results in this new experimental mode. You can even ask follow-up questions if needed, and YouTube will even present some additional prompts that might be worth looking at. As you can imagine, blending these two worlds together can get a little messy. But for the most part, it
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