At I/O, Google Offers a New Vision for Local Search
When it comes to digital technology, there are very few subject areas in which Google doesn't have a fairly deep investment. If you review the list of sessions last week at I/O, the company's developer conference, you'll encounter a familiarly broad range of topics, from payments to gaming to deep learning, security, smart homes, self-driving cars, cloud computing, foldable devices, and myriad others. It can be hard to determine what all of this adds up to, but if that's what keynote addresses are for, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his team delivered a strong message this time around. At the start of the keynote, Pichai said that it was still Google's mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." But the company's approach to this challenge has evolved: "We're moving from a company that helps you find answers to a company that hel