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Google's just introduced Google now for the desktop sort of now Google now is Google's personal assistant that loads information for you before you need it Amaya Zak tart and today I'll show you how to get Google now on everything to get started with Google now in the desktop you're actually gonna have to start off with a mobile device now I happen to have my android phone right here and what you do is you go into your apps and you go into google settings within google settings you'll see an option for search and now click that then you'll see Google now on the very top make sure that's turned on when you turn on Google now you'll see a bunch of text saying hey this is what Google now does now what Google now actually does it takes a look at all the activities you're doing using Google so if you don't like being tracked you're not going to probably want this at all but me I like Google know what I'm doing makes it a lot easier I'm gonna say yes I'm in it's gonna use my account and right away I get information about the weather nearby events and other items I can even add things like my favorite sports team so I can get updates that's setting up Google now on your phone once you've got that set up you've got to go to your desktop and you got to download Google Chrome Beta now the easiest way to do that is simply do a search for Google Chrome Beta it's the top result on Google you'll find that and you'll see download Chrome Beta you click download and then you install the application once you've opened up Chrome Beta make sure you log in using the same Google account that you're using on your mobile device that'll connect everything together then you'll click the chrome notification center now in Mac it happens to be on the top it's that little bell you'll click that you can click the gear icon to make sure that Google now is actually selected as an option Google says that now on chrome shows a subset of the now card you'd see on your mobile device so you're not gonna see exactly the same stuff you will see things like the weather or your favorite sports team scores if you have that enabled in my case you can see it pops up when you click one of those cards you actually taken to a website of that information look at heat looks like they beat my warriors if for some reason you're not seeing Google now cards showing up in that Notification Center you might want to do this little hack workaround you go into the address field you type in Chrome colon slash slash flags do a quick find for Google now you'll see that it's set to default make sure that's set to enabled that way you might be able to actually see those cards you'll see on the bottom it's gonna ask you to restart chrome one should we start Chrome you should be able to see Google now cards showing up in that notification center if you want to edit things like your favorite sports teams or defining where your workplace is you're gonna still have to pick up a mobile device actually because there doesn't appear to be a way to edit that information on the desktop version you're gonna have to go back into Google and change it on your phone now we've got Google now on our desktop or mobile devices we've got it everywhere we're not gonna miss any notifications that's really cool I'm a big fan of Google now for more handy tips and tricks like this check out how to do Netcom for seeing that I might as actor thanks for watching