There are so many ways to get information online. You have news publications, social media, subscription-based magazines, and so on. But do they really know what kind of topics interest you? That’s something Google Dreambeans is trying to do, and it’s now free to test if you’re interested.
Google Dreambeans now free to test
For those unfamiliar, Google Dreambeans is an experimental app cooked up by the folks over at Google Labs. According to its description, “Dreambeans is an experimental app that provides proactive, personalized collections of stories each day, covering the things that matter most to you. It connects the dots across your Google apps to surface things you’d miss, things you’d love and help you dive deeper into them.”
Now, some of you think it sounds a bit like Google News. But the truth is it’s far from it. Google News tends to pull from more journalistic sources and also its content is broken into categories. So even if you’re interested in “technology,” there might be some topics in there that you’re not necessarily keen on.
But with Google Dreambeans, the company says it uses Personal Intelligence. Basically what it does is it combs through Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, YouTube, and your search history to understand topics you’re interested in. For example, you’re interested in cooking, but more specifically, you’re interested in cooking with a carbon steel pan. So based on that, it will try to curate stories based around that for you.
All of this is done with permission, of course. Google also says it’s not trying to be your next doomscroll. The company says that the stories Dreambeans curates are finite, so you can focus on what matters.
How to get your hands on it?
Worth noting that the app is an experiment. However, Google Dreambeans is free to test and is available on both Android and iOS. We mention that it is experimental because we don’t know where Google is going with this. Will it become a mainstay product, or will it eventually fall to the wayside? Or is Google simply gathering data that can be used in a future product?
Either way, it’s free. It was previously locked behind a paywall for Google’s AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. But now you can take it for a spin, that is, if you’re comfortable with Google having more insight into your life than it already has.
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