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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and in this quick look video we're gonna take a look at Google now on tap to start with Google now on tap is actually very easy to use to engage it simply pull up the information you want now on tap to analyze and then press and hold the home button this will bring up now on tap which after a few moments of loading will display any information it can about whatever it is that's on your screen in card format below that is a Google button that will simply open up Google now once the card pops up you'll have a few options and they're all listed as icons across the bottom of the card you can google it find images open maps open social media pages and a whole lot more how much information that's available depends on the subject at hand hockey players generally only have a Google search button and images while restaurants have plenty of other options it works pretty well most of the time and you can use it inside of applications during our testing we used it on Google newsstand at Google Plus hangouts slack Google Chrome and a few others now on top has no issues parsing the information from each one and delivering the results results are generally easy to pull up as long as the subject is clearly written for instance Alex here asked me about halo 5 and now on Todd was able to pull up a card for Halo however when neurovascular Marble Avengers movie it wasn't able to figure out what it was supposed to be searching for hilariously when you go to the IMDB page for the Avengers now on top has no issues pulling up a card about the movie we found that there really are a ton of results we found hockey players movies actors fictional characters little Chinese restaurants in New York City Landmarks from Europe and a whole bunch more there really is a lot more here than we originally envisioned on the other side of the spectrum there were things we expected now on top to be able to find easily to no avail it was able to find the Galaxy Nexus from a text message but nothing about the Nexus P from an article title when you add it all up it really is a case of your mileage may vary if you only use it for certain things than cards will almost certainly pop up every time pulling up now on top on every page that pops up on your smart phone on the other hand will likely not work the majority of the time Google now on tap is for the most part very impressive having the ability to instantaneously glean information on whatever happens to be on your screen is both enjoyable and functional of course there are some issues here and there and the service we'll likely get updated over time to overcome these early flaws we imagine many of them will be ironed out by the time stable marshmallow starts making its way around to everyone if you're interested in getting now on tap you'll need a device running marshmallow and you'll need to be updated to the latest version of the Google Play services as well as the latest version of the Google app it should start working from there everyone else will have to wait and that about does it for this video folks once again I'm Johanna the Android authority app guy and why you're here you might as well subscribe to the Android Authority YouTube channel because we are your source for all things Android as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day