The new user interface seems to split search up into three categories: contacts, businesses, and refinements. The contacts and businesses categories will show you those you regularly interact with, while refinements highlights things that you may want to search for, like Photos, Attachments, and so on.
The categories are side-scrolling, and according to the report, there are six options in each category, although more could certainly be added.
Perhaps more interesting is the fact that the new feature could be the first indication of Google Assistant in Google Inbox. AndroidPolice recently tore down the latest update of Google Inbox, unearthing hints that Assistant will be integrated into Inbox, to help you organize your emails and tasks, and keep those tasks at hand for when you need them. Assistant, Google’s replacement to Google Now, is largely expected to be integrated deeply within all of Google’s apps and services on Android. The new assistant was shown off at Google I/O, however it has yet to be released, and doesn’t really show up in the latest version of Android,
It’s important to note that the new user interface doesn’t appear in any live version of Inbox just yet, so it’s possible that the latest tips about Inbox are only server-side updates. We’ll let you know when a new version of Inbox is released to consumers with Google Assistant.
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