{"id":277249,"date":"2018-09-26T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=277249"},"modified":"2018-09-26T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:56:08","slug":"google-launches-new-search-features-for-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/277249-google-launches-new-search-features-for-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches new search features for Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its efforts to overhaul the Android messaging experience, Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/messages\/five-new-features-try-messages\/easy-way-search-through-past-conversations-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>released<\/strong><\/a> new, powerful search features for its Messages application.<\/p>\n<p>Messages now allows users to search for content from each contact in their messaging history by tapping the search button.<\/p>\n<p>The menu also displays links to specific group and one-on-one conversations, and any media or links shared within past conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Google confirmed that these improvements to the search function would begin rolling out to Android users this week.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been working to overhaul its default messaging experience of late, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/265043-google-rolls-out-android-messages-for-web.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rolling out<\/strong><\/a> a web-based version of the Messages platform.<\/p>\n<p>This allows users with the Messages app to send or receive texts from their PC, verifying the identity of the user via one-time passwords received in the mobile app.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/277051-google-chrome-getting-a-dark-theme-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Chrome getting a dark theme \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released new, powerful search features for its Messages application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":268787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,167,52101,54065],"class_list":["post-277249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-google","tag-messages","tag-search-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277251,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277249\/revisions\/277251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}