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Google's Mobile Search Results Now Include Videos Of Celebrities Answering Your Questions (techcrunch.com)
Google is testing a new feature that will allow celebrities and other notable figures to answer users' search queries directly in the form of "selfie" videos posted in the Google Search results. From a report: The company says this program is initially being piloted on mobile with a handful of people for now, including Priyanka Chopra, Will Ferrell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gina Rodriguez, Kenan Thompson, Allison Williams, Nick Jonas, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Seth MacFarlane, Jonathan Yeo and Dominique Ansel. Of course, the celebs aren't answering users' queries in real-time. Instead, Google has had them pre-record their videos in response to what it already knows are some of fans' most-asked questions typed into the Google search box.
"What is fellatio?"
Wow, I get to hear a celeb drone on and on, taking twenty times longer to convey the answer to me than it would take for me to read the answer. Sign me up! :)
Gotta be totally dependable answers I'm sure, no controlling the message. Not that any of this shit is important.
Why not go look up what you can do to help other people and help your country instead.
An I would want this why? Even if I was a fan of the celebrity I can't think of anything more annoying than to sit though a video rather than read the answer in a quarter of the time.
Gawd no! And btw "Priyanka Chopra" sounds like an exotic fish meal I'd order in a fancy restaurant.
Why would anyone want a celebrity to give an answer? Do people think that somehow math or history answers are better because some actor or musician gives it?
Idiocracy, I thought you were a joke...
And zero fucks were given about these "celebrities". Who the fuck are they and why are they important?
I'd rather have a _real_ conversation with a teacher or minister to understand today's real problems ... not some invented first world "problem."
I already can see paris hilton rubbing on lip gloss to cover a herp sore and discussing VD's. It would be brilliant.
unbelievable at best..... cease fire stand down is our best .bet
If I'm forced to watch celebrity videos when doing searches on Google, I will no longer do searches on Google. Plenty of other search engines out there. Problem solved.
Is Global Warming real?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
.nobs will offer only accurate results in plain text.... ah ha,, make peace a priority is the #1 answer... for all of us...
Why?? Do people really want this? I am genuinely surprised that this is a thing.
And I'm your guide to the World of Facts...
Thanks Google, we really needed this! Again, thank you.
Get motion capture of their faces making a battery of sounds, along with their voice making a battery of sounds.
Couple that with enhanced text to speech logic to map the text to those sounds and you could have them answer any question.
I think it's Apple that has some ad with emoji faces mimicking you in a fancy text message.
Same concept, just with real people faces and their voices.
I refuse to sign
All you panic button hitting doomsdayers that are terrified this will ruin your precious Google search, go RTFA. It's celebrities posting videos answering the most common questions they get asked about themselves. It's canned video, not interactive and it won't answer any and every question you ask it with a celebrity. It's celebrities promoting themselves no different than they do on Twitter. This won't affect the average Google user in the slightest.
Of all people, you had to pick that most cancerous of unfunny monstrosities?
He's so dumb, you can literally tell from his face before he even does anything. So it must be a genetic pattern.
Only horrible un-people find that shit (and Family Guy and Epic Movie) funny.
reason to turn off javascript and only whitelist sites.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Oh goodie! Instead of responding with a few kilobytes worth of text, my precious limited bandwidth gets burned through with video clips! Are they offering a solid boot to the nads, too?
This just sounds terrible.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Oh dear...
what problem is being addressed by this?
It doesn't even autoload, it's just the top hit (obviously) when you enter that exact phrase listed. Jesus, sometimes you wanna be contrarians will freak out over the smallest shit. Is it really being analytical or contrarian if you have nothing to say???
Honesty, who in the hell thought this was a good idea? Just from a war logistics standpoint you're only going to be answer few special questions. And paying celebrities to do this is going to get very expensive very fast. And beyond that, what benefit will this be for me to have a video playing that eats my mobile bandwidth instead of just letting me read the text that will be displayed on my screen now?
And then something about a restraining order.
Have gnu, will travel.
what a way to promote the rich by giving them a bigger mouth piece (aka full priority on your platform)
Who are these people?
Why does it seem like celebrities are among the world's worst people?
Why did't you make HIM the president?
It would be much better and more hilariois choice than the TrumpHillaryObamaBushClintonBushReaganCarterNixon monstrosity.