Programmatic Ponderings Search Action for Google Assistant

This project was created for the post, Integrating Search Capabilities with Actions for Google Assistant, using GKE and Elasticsearch. This two-part post explores the enhancement of voice and text-based conversational interfaces by integrating a search and analytics engine. By interfacing an Action for Google Assistant conversational interface with Elasticsearch, we will improve the Action’s ability to provide relevant results to the end-user.

This repository contains the Action's serverless Cloud Function, detailed in the post, which communicates with Elasticsearch, via the Spring Boot Service.

Google Assistant Preview

Here is a brief YouTube video preview of the final Action for Google Assistant, we will explore in this post, running on an Apple iPhone 8.

Architecture

The final architecture of the Action for Google Assistant will look as follows.