Nexus 7 (2013) Guidebook  

GooGLe NoW & seARCH

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for sports or flight updates, or from your synced calendar entries 
for appointment reminders. 

About Google Now cards

A Google Now card is a short snippet of useful information that 
slides into view right when you’re most likely to need it. For exam-
ple, here’s a traffic card:

To see some sample cards from the main Google Now screen, 
touch   Menu > Sample cards. When you’re finished and want 
to get back to the main Google Now screen, touch Hide sample 
cards. 

in addition to the cards shown in the list of samples, you may also 
see a Public Alerts card.

Public Alerts provide emergency information from sources such 
as the National Weather service and the u.s. Geological survey. 
Coverage is currently provided by a limited number of key part-
ners, only in the united states (excepting u.s. Geological survey 
earthquake alerts). Google can’t guarantee that you’ll see every 
relevant alert. However, Google Now attempts to show you what’s 
important when you need it, in the hope that such alerts are a use-
ful additional source of information. To learn more, visit 

support.

google.com/publicalerts

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