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Dismiss Cards
When you’re nished with a card, just slide it left or right to dismiss it from the Google Now screen.
NOTE
The card appears again when a new update is available.
Adjust Notications
When a card has a new update, you’ll receive a notication at the bottom of your screen. You can tap
the icon in the Notication Tray to open the card or dismiss the notication.
Most notifications for Now cards can be turned off or set to low priority or standard priority. Low
priority notifications appear at the bottom of the notifications shade without any additional signal.
Standard notications appear like the others, in chronological order, and you can set vibration and a
ringtone to accompany them.
To set notications to low priority or standard for an individual card that supports both options:
• When the card appears, tap Menu icon
> Settings on the card.
• From the lower right corner of the Google Now screen, tap Menu icon
> Settings > Google Now
> [card name] > Notications.
To change ringtone and vibrate options for all standard notifications, start from the Google
Now screen, tap Menu icon
> Settings > Google Now, and adjust the options under Standard
Notications.
Search
A Google Now card is a short snippet of useful information that slides into view right when you’re most
likely to need it.
Search by Typing
Type your query in the search box on the Google Now card, or in Google Chrome’s omnibox. For more
information, see Typing on page 16 .
As you type, suggestions appear below the Search box. The rst few suggestions attempt to complete
what you’re typing:
To search for a suggestion immediately, tap it.
To search for the contents of the search eld, tap the Search icon on the right side of the on-
screen keyboard.
Voice Search
You can use Voice Actions with Google Search to get directions, send messages, and perform a number
of other common tasks. For more information, see Voice Search & Voice Actions on page 20 .
Search Tips & Tricks
You can search and control your Sero 7 with the following Search tips & tricks.
What you want What to type or say Examples
Sports information [team’s name] San Francisco Giants
Pictures Pictures of [topic]
Images of [topic]
Pictures of San Francisco
Images of cats
Convert measurements [original measurement] in [new
measurement]
30 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit
Search, or say Google