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Meet Allo, Google’s New WhatsApp Competitor With Snoopy Bots

Google has started rolling out Allo and said the app would be available worldwide in the next few days. Touted as a “smart” messaging app, Google Allo comes with advanced features created to make texting and chatting extra-fun and more secure.

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Google Allo users can also adjust the size of text being sent by sliding the “Send” button up and down.

Currently, both Smart Reply and Google Assistant are in English-only, with “more languages coming soon”. End-to-end encryption has not been used as Google wants to read your conversations to reply with its Assistant.

The company says that it has reneged on this privacy feature to improve the assistant’s smart reply feature in Allo, the feature automatically suggests responses to a conversation. What this does is, it recalls the typical responses of the user and presents the applicable ones as reply options to a message or a photo. And also it help us to get things done directly in our chats.

While Facebook is still trying to add an assistant on its messenger functionality, Google today released Google Allo, the smartest messaging app ever. It’s your own personal Google, always ready to help.

United States internet giant Google launched on Wednesday, September 21, a smart messaging app aimed at muscling into a busy market with popular rivals such as WhatsApp and Facebook’s messenger. After changing it in the account settings, it says that it can show personal data, yet asking the same question gets the can’t provide personal answers message again. It will also bring up games people can play while messaging each other. And a built-in drawing tool in app allows us to doodle on images before sending them.

All chats in Google Allo are encrypted using industry standard technologies like Transport Layer Security (TLS), it said. Well, Google has solution for you. But not only that Google introduced Incognito mode.

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There’s an Incognito mode that offers end-to-end encryption on messages, expiration times and more.

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