Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app

Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by snowwrestler on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:58AM (#12548174)

I use Google Voice for a second phone number on my iPhone and yeah, it worries me how little attention it seems to get.

It took Google forever to update it to match the iOS 7 "flat" look. And to this day it's missing a pretty obvious feature: search! Yes, there is no search functionality in the Google Voice app on iPhone. Apple's Messages and Facebook Messenger both have it.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by curt15 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:39AM (#12549190)

There is no search functionality in the hangouts app either. What other messaging apps lack the ability to search conversations? Google's own SMS messenger app implements search beautifully.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by SubiculumCode on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:25PM (#12551394)

Well. Maybe it is not the same for you, but hangout messages get archived as emails in gmail. so search gmail maybe?

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by wehadfun on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:00PM (#12549409)

Also no API. Google Voice has been ignored for so long. Probably because it is not easy to advertise on or get data from

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by aroch on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:07PM (#12550109)

They definitely use the voicemail transcription feature as training/test data for their NLP stuff

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