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Petal Search is a search engine which provides Huawei HMS device users with quick and easy access to millions of apps and a massive amount of information. It's available in more than 170 countries and regions, and supports over 50 languages. Petal Search is powered by all kinds of advanced technologies, including big data, AI, and NLP (Natural Language Processing).
With Petal Search, you can search for apps and information across a wide range of categories, including news, videos, shopping, travel, and images. It also provides you with information about local services, like nearby restaurants and other points of interest (POIs). Your search results are presented in information boxes, rather than large blocks of text, so you can find what you're looking for more easily. You can even monitor the stock market or follow a football match without any hassle. As if this wasn't enough, there are lots more cool features for you to try, such as interface customization, Dark mode, Favorites, and Child mode.
Petal Search's latest version 10.1.6 integrates even more local services for your everyday needs. For instance, if you're in Singapore, you can type "umbrella" into the search bar, and Petal Search will show you the nearest place where you can borrow an umbrella. Or, if you're from the Philippines and you search "lottery", Petal Search will show you the lottery results, and you can filter content by time and category to quickly find the numbers you're looking for.
Petal Search supports voice searches in 16 countries: India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. You can find a huge range of content, such as weather forecasts, flights, hotels, and restaurants, by simply saying what you're looking for. This is particularly useful in situations when you can't type. You can even book a flight ticket directly in Petal Search.
Petal Search also has a visual search feature. To search by image, just open Petal Search, and tap the camera icon in the main search bar. You can then take a photo with your camera, or choose one from your gallery. When you search for a product – let's say a houseplant – Petal Search picks out details about the plant from the photo you upload, and processes the image data. You can then see how much it costs and where to buy it, and Petal Search will even return images of other plants which look similar.
What's more, Petal Search is capable of searching for and detecting multiple objects in an image at the same time. For instance, when you take a photo of a sofa with a blanket and cushion on it, Petal Search can identify all three items at the same time, and deliver comprehensive search results in a single list. This means you don't have to take tons of photos and search for them individually. Visual search technology makes shopping so much easier!
With Petal Search, you can literally find millions of apps, and a wealth of information, with ease. There's a search bar widget you can set up on your home screen, which saves you the hassle of opening dozens of apps and browser windows before you find what you're looking for. Better yet, Petal Search will tell you in the Downloads section whenever an update is available, so you'll always be running the latest version of your apps.
If you have any questions about how to use Petal Search, you can find answers on the Online support page. If you'd like to tell us anything about the app's content, features, and performance, you can submit your feedback and suggestions on the Feedback page. We can't wait to hear from you!
Petal Search is compliant with GDPR privacy security standards, and has been awarded the ePrivacyseal for keeping your data safe. It also conforms to local privacy and security requirements, so you can relax and enjoy a secure and reliable search experience.
We're always working on improving and expanding the features of the Petal Search app, and making it available in even more countries. In the coming months, we'll be testing and rolling out a range of new features which will enhance the accuracy of the search results and provide you with an even greater searching experience.
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Meet Petal Search, an AI-powered mobile search engine that makes it easy to find virtually anything online, from news and nearby services, to great shopping offers, travel deals, and more.
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I didn't know it but it seems interesting.
Very useful.
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AppGallery users can now become part of one of the world’s most popular dating platforms.
Badoo, a truly global dating platform with almost 500 million daters across 190 countries and 51 languages, is now available on AppGallery. Based on truthfulness, the app asks users to pledge complete honesty to give them a better chance of finding a real connection with other users and finding that perfect match. The app enables people to chat, video call, meet, and date other users, and is just one of the latest examples of the quality and popular apps that AppGallery aggregates for its 600 million users.
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Badoo is available as a Quick App, an innovative feature unique to AppGallery which enables installation-free apps that provide experiences very close to the native versions. Badoo’s Head of Communications Tristan Pineiro said Quick Apps not only take up much less space on people’s phones and therefore enable improved app performance under heavy loads, they also enable a better user experience.
“In the modern day, daters want a quick and convenient dating platform that can cater for their busy lifestyles, and having Badoo available as a Quick App allows daters to enjoy easy access across different devices and platforms,” Pineiro said.
Furthermore, Badoo integrates Huawei Mobile Service’s Chip-Device-Cloud capabilities to enable optimised in-app functionality and help deliver the smoothest possible dating experience for AppGallery users. For example, Huawei Mobile Service’s geolocation intelligently combines GPS, Wi-Fi, and base stations to give precise user locations and enable daters to meet people around them.
Meanwhile, Huawei’s Push Kit works in tandem with the Quick Apps function, enabling developers to check if push tokens on users’ devices have expired when the app is brought to the foreground. The Push Kit also enables developers to control how and when notifications are sent to users and ensure the correct information is shown when they tap the notification, meaning users have continued access to the latest updates and promotions.
“These days, there are many different online dating platforms, and people want a service that offers a smooth and efficient user experience, as well as being able to date honestly. Listing with AppGallery and integrating with Huawei Mobile Service’s innovative kit means that Badoo can offer both these things, which ultimately helps us reach more users and achieve higher engagement rates,” Pineiro said.
Huawei constantly works on collaborations with the world’s top app developers to create quality apps, and Badoo is one of the latest among 60,000 apps that have utilized Huawei’s advanced technologies and on-device capabilities to deliver superior services and enhanced user experiences.
All applications developed in collaboration with Huawei, along with thousands of other quality apps, are available on Huawei’s open and secure app distribution platform, AppGallery. As one of the top three app marketplaces globally, AppGallery connects 420 million monthly active users throughout more than 170 countries and regions to Huawei’s smart and innovative ecosystem.
AppGallery provides users with more choice and better app discovery options, with thousands of apps across 18 categories including news, social media, entertainment, and more.
To download Badoo, visit AppGallery now. For more information, please visit https://consumer.huawei.com/en/mobileservices/appgallery/
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Huawei today announced new developments to Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem at the HUAWEI Mate 40 Series launch event, launching Petal Search, Petal Maps, HUAWEI Docs, levelling up global Huawei users' digital experience with other new updates.
Hardware and software integration enhances digital lifestyle experience
Huawei’s official search engine app, Petal Search now is available in over 170 countries and regions and supports over 50 languages, letting users conveniently and instantly find out the information and services they need.
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Petal Search offers search capabilities across more than 20 categories, including apps, news, videos, images, shopping, flights, and local business. It also develops and integrates various tools, such as weather, calculator, rate exchange and even paper query to help user easily obtain daily-used information. With the new update, the search experience is now visually richer. Search results are presented in information cards, as opposed to simple weblinks, to help users get this wealth of useful information instantly with just a few clicks.
Leveraging Huawei devices’ AI capabilities, Petal Search allows users to search by taking photos or images through its visual search function. It recognises a wide range of objects such as people, animals, and landmarks, and will introduce new capabilities such as plants identification. For instance, user can simply take a photo of a dish and Petal Search will provide the recipe. A voice search feature is also integrated in the app, supporting English, Spanish, French, Arabic and more. These features help Petal Search meet the needs of users accustomed to an efficient and mobile-centric lifestyle.
In addition, with the cooperation with global and local partners, Petal Search is vigorously developing local life search services, to provide users a rich location-based and scenario-based search experience. When user look up for local life content, Petal Search provides users with high-quality and popular localized information, such as personalized recommendations or nearby foods, worth visiting local attractions, and shopping discounts.
Petal Maps, meanwhile, is Huawei’s quality and convenient mapping and navigational tool, offering positioning services, immersive map displays, place searches, driving navigation and favorite place lists to users in over 140 countries and regions. Petal Maps supports map displays in multiple languages, with voice notifications in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin.
Petal Maps is also equipped with cutting-edge functions to give a real-time publish transit updates in some major cities, helping commuters better plan their routes and take the worry off travelling. Utilizing pioneering technologies such as Super GNSS and image recognition algorithms, Petal Maps further heighten the accuracy and present users the most efficient and least congested routes.
Thanks to HUAWEI Mate 40 Series devices’ Gesture Control, drivers are able to switch between the navigation view and map overview by simply using “air press” towards the screen with their palms. These smart interactions significantly enhance the ease of travel, as well as facilitate a safe driving experience.
HUAWEI Docs, available in more than 100 countries and regions, supports document viewing and editing across over 50 formats including PDF, PPT, and DOC. With real-time syncing enabled by cloud capabilities, HUAWEI Docs lets users seamlessly work on the same document on different devices logged into the same HUAWEI ID, enhancing the smart office experience.
Full suite of Huawei Mobile Services apps to complement digital living
Upgrade on Find Device enables users to locate their Huawei devices such as smartphones, watches, earphones, and glasses. Users can either play a ringtone remotely to help locate the devices, or choose to lock and wipe devices information, protecting user privacy.
HUAWEI Themes introduced exclusive theme packs to enable deeper device personalisation. The first batch of packs includes themes of famous artists, classic literature, and the Ingenuity series Huawei selected.
Supported by 2 million global developers, Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem maintains rapid growth. As one of the top 3 app marketplace globally, AppGallery continues to bring together popular global and local apps to over 500 million monthly active users. HUAWEI Quick App also reach a 260% year-on-year increase of monthly active users for its tap-to-use and installation-free experience.
(Note: For accessories supported by Find Device, please visit the official HUAWEI website for more details.)
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Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population. Fifteen R&D centres have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India and China. Huawei Consumer BG is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc. Huawei’s global network is built on almost 30 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.
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The pace of change for mobile technology is fast-moving – each new device and product builds on its predecessor to enhance users’ lives. Likewise, Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), an ever-evolving technology since its introduction back in the early 2010s, refreshes the user experience with every update. Throughout its growth, Huawei users have enjoyed a consistently enhanced digital lifestyle faceted by security, convenience, and innovation.
When HMS was first unveiled, digital living was at its infancy. Smartphones had limited functionalities, shackled by poor app innovation. Data was stored on-device and users had no access to media content outside of their own personal libraries as streaming technology wasn’t established yet. Compared to the liberating platform of today, the digital lifestyle was lacklustre and limited.
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HMS quickly caught the eyes of mobile users everywhere with its smart native apps. Huawei ushered its users into the flourishing digital era with innovation like an HUAWEI Assistant · TODAY that shares smart recommendations, empowering users to live their best lives. HUAWEI Videos, HUAWEI Music, and HUAWEI Books offer a diverse and expansive global entertainment. Furthermore, Huawei users no longer face the risk of losing their devices. Users can simply use the Find Device to locate their Huawei devices such as smartphones, watches, earphones, and glasses, as well as locking and wipe devices, and playing a ringtone remotely.
Huawei is constantly looking ahead, identifying different aspects of the digital life where HMS apps can elevate the user experience. With the launch of the HUAWEI Mate 40 Series, HMS has also unveiled several new HMS apps – including Petal Search, Petal Maps, HUAWEI Docs, and more – further enriching an already robust native apps line-up.
With Petal Search, users gain access to everything the whole world, and simultaneously their local market, has to offer. Supporting over 50 languages and 170 countries globally, this mobile-first search engine offers search capabilities to find app, news, videos, images, shopping, flights, local businesses, among others. Not only does it reveal high-quality and relevant results when users look up localised queries, but it also provides additional services such as weather forecast and translation to meet users’ day-to-day needs. Leveraging Huawei devices’ AI capabilities, users can also search using images or photos they have taken, complementing the fast-paced and convenient mobile lifestyle of today. Future updates even include a voice search feature and strengthened visual search function.
The launch of Petal Maps means that Huawei users now have a newer and more innovative way of exploring the world. It not only provides global users in more than 140 countries with features including location tracking, map display, driving directions, it also comes with real-time road conditions to provide the best travelling experience. Additionally, Petal Maps will be the first navigation app to support the Huawei Mate 40 Series’ Gesture Control feature to meet the travelling needs of drivers accustomed to the smart and digital way of living. Drivers can now switch between map views by simply gesturing an ‘air press’ towards the screen with their palms, making navigation easier through these smart interactions.
As the world shifts towards remote working and collaboration, HUAWEI Docs is the perfect companion for Huawei users. It supports viewing and editing of documents in more than 50 common file formats, and allows users to work on the same document with real-time syncing across different devices that are on the same HUAWEI ID to ensure a smoother and enhanced work experience.
Huawei will continue working on the HMS ecosystem relentlessly to endow users with the quality digital lifestyle that they deserve. Start living the digital life with HMS, and leap towards tomorrow today.
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Nice news.
Awesome looking forward
Same, very interesting Despite I'm a Samsung fan I'm following everything about Huawei as well.
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Navigation Apps HMS Vs. GMS
The best map application depends on access to a massive amount of data and users. These things are essential to creating a reliable navigation app. The largest map systems come from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. For Huawei phones that don't support GMS, HMS Core's Map Kit will be powering navigation apps. So in this thread, let's compare the HMS map applications available from Huawei's App Gallery, with Google Maps.
Google Maps [GMS]
Google Maps has been the king of real-time navigation for a long time now. Along with navigation, the service offers features for trip planning, offline maps, business hours, traffic updates, speed trap warnings, business reviews and so much more. It is the most advanced navigation system by far.
The overall experience of using Google Maps is as good as it gets. The app is easy to use, and the real-time navigation is best-in-class. The integration with Google Assistant makes voice control of the app, very easy. Google has such an advantage by having so many active users being able to upload reviews, photos, and traffic information to Google Maps. It is easy to find photos of local spots, and upload your photos for others to see.
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Google Street View is made possible by Google vehicles driving the streets of your country and uploading pictures to the platform. Google Street View has had years to evolve and can be very helpful to get a better look at specific businesses, parking opportunities, and find address numbers.
Offline Map Navigation [HMS]
So without the ability to use Google Maps, Does HMS have any compatible apps that can compete? If you go to the Huawei App Gallery and search for navigation apps, only a small few will show up in the results. One of the only functioning apps I could find that had a decent amount of positive rating was an app called Offline Map Navigation. This is the best Google Maps alternative that I was able to find on the App Gallery. Navigation is the primary focus of this app, with the maps having a similar look to Google Maps. The app feels very familiar and is easy to use.
When it comes to navigating from point A to point B, Offline Map Navigation does this very well. Directions calculate quickly and accurately. The area that is lacking is real-time traffic data. You can get an accurate drive time to your location, but it will not warn you of traffic jams or accidents ahead. So it's more of a barebones version of Google Maps. It does the basics and it does them well, but many larger features from services like Google Maps are missing.
Business listings are just a name and location. The app is not able to offer reviews, photos, and detailed information about specific businesses. This simply is not possible without a massive userbase uploading information to the app.
There are clearly lots of opportunities for Developers to take advantage of the Map Kit to create great navigation apps for Huawei devices.
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How do users quickly find what they want when shopping online?
When users launch an e-commerce app and know what they want to buy, they’ll most likely perform a text, voice, or image search of the exact items they want to purchase. However, if the users do not know what they want to buy, they’ll most likely browse through products recommended by the app. Whether users are willing to make a purchase depends on their search experience in the first scenario and how well you know their preferences in the second scenario. This is why intelligent search and recommendation has become a critical feature in helping users quickly find what they want and thereby improving user retention and conversion.
Utilizing Petal Search’s fully open capabilities, HUAWEI Search Kit offers a one-stop solution for e-commerce apps to quickly and accurately recommend what users want, ensure an accurate and efficient mobile app search experience, and provide personalized search services through deep learning of user and product profiles. Search Kit also offers multi-language support for our ecosystem partners.
1. Quickly building an on-site search engine
Search by keyword
Search Kit equips your e-commerce app with capabilities such as popular search, auto suggestion, intelligent sorting, and search by category.
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Currently, search by keyword is supported in 32 languages. It is available to e-commerce apps operating both inside and outside the Chinese mainland, and facilitates the deployment of Chinese e-commerce apps outside the Chinese mainland.
Search by image
When a user searches for a product using an image, Search Kit returns accurate and personalized results based on the image and the user's behavior profile.
Images that users use for product search are automatically reviewed and those that contain pornography, terrorism, politics, religion, illegal items, or vulgar content are automatically recognized and filtered out. Search Kit’s image filter function has currently been individually adapted for 30 countries and regions around the world.
Search by voice
Utilizing the automatic speech recognition (ASR) capability, Search Kit features voice input, search by voice, and an in-app voice assistant.
Currently, the following languages are supported: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Chinese. Search by voice can also be tailored to local accents.
2. Intelligent on-site recommendation in multiple scenarios
By analyzing user search history and preferences, Search Kit recommends products to users and displays the search results intelligently. Recommended products are displayed on the home page, category page, product details page, and shopping cart page to help boost the order conversion rate.
3. Search solutions for e-commerce apps
Comprehensive hosting service: Offers easy data integration and operation, freeing you from having to invest resources into complicated data processing or deep learning modeling.
AI support: Provides powerful AI modeling support with Huawei's rich experience in intelligent product search and recommendation.
Data value optimization: Optimizes the value of structured data, non-structured data, and user event data.
Multi-scenario recommendation: Recommends products throughout the whole purchase process from browsing products on the home page, placing an order, to viewing the delivery status.
Customizable policies: Allows you to customize the search and recommendation policies by modifying relevant parameters.
Secure data and models: Ensures that the data and models generated for your app are isolated from those of other e-commerce apps and can be deleted anytime.
In summary, Search Kit provides e-commerce apps with end-to-end e-commerce solutions and cloud services, allowing you to quickly roll out your own e-commerce apps and create and configure resources in a matter of minutes.
Click here to learn more about Search Kit
To learn more, please visit:
HUAWEI Developers official website
Development Guide
Reddit to join developer discussions
GitHub or Gitee to download the demo and sample code
Stack Overflow to solve integration problems
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