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Provide, maintain, and improve services to meet the needs of our users. For example, analyzing which search terms are most frequently misspelled to help us improve spell-check features used across our services.

Understand how people use our services to ensure and improve the performance of our services. For example, analyzing usage of Google Translate to improve translation quality and increase the availability of Translate in more languages.

Perform research that improves our services for our users and benefits the public. For example, improving Google Translate's translation quality and increasing the availability of Translate in more languages.

Understanding how people organized their photos in Picasa, Google's first photos app, helped us design and launch Google Photos. Understanding how users view and creators generate short-form content helped Google develop new YouTube services. Depending on your settings, we can save audio recordings of voice interactions with services like Google Search, Assistant, Maps, and Gboard to develop and improve Google audio technologies. We use publicly available information online or from other public sources to help train new machine learning models and build foundational technologies that power various Google products such as Google Translate, Gemini Apps, and Cloud AI capabilities. We use your interactions with AI models and technologies like Gemini Apps to develop, train, fine-tune, and improve these models to better handle your requests, and update their classifiers and filters including for safety, language understanding, and factuality.

To develop new Google services, products and features

Understanding how people organized their photos in Picasa, Google's first photos app, helped us design and launch Google Photos.

Understanding how users view and creators generate short-form content helped Google develop new YouTube services.

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