ISSUE 68 • ANDROID ADVISOR 73you during your morning commute, Google Assistant
consistently surprised me with such thoughtful and
intelligent touches as gorgeously laid-out search-
result pages when I asked about dinosaurs, or by telling
me that Norah Jones will be performing nearby in a
few days when I asked to hear some of her songs on
Spotify. And the first time it sees me in the kitchen
each morning, Assistant gives me a daily briefing,
complete with the weather, my appointments, news
(tailored to my interests, of course), and other titbits.
If you’re using the Nest Hub Max in the kitchen (as I
did), Google Assistant can look up recipes on the web,
read out the ingredients one by one, and then step
you through the instructions, complete with a polishedThe Google Nest Hub Max does a
particularly good job at both displaying
and reading aloud recipes from the web