China’s booming WeChat app universe now includes a Google mini-app
https://qz.com/1331650/an-app-built-just-for-wechat-hints-at-googles-new-china-plan/
In its latest China overture, search giant Google announced Wednesday (July 18) on its Chinese blog (link in Chinese) it launched an applet called Caihua Xiaoge (猜画小歌) in China. But it’s not on Google Play—which isn’t even available in China.
Instead, it lives inside the app universe created within the ubiquitous messaging app WeChat, which has a billion users. Google product manager Chris Tam wrote in the post that the search giant’s first WeChat applet is meant to introduce users to a specific strand of AI—computer vision technology.