This is a product which would have cost a lot of money and time to develop, at least to ensure it is the most useful of its kind, while there was little immediate return on investment.
Now Google is reaping the commercial benefits of Maps, but it is still keeping an eye on new features, improved experience and, eventually, additional revenues.
“Not only does Google Maps help you navigate, explore, and get things done at home, but it’s also a powerful travel companion,” Rachel Inman wrote on Google’s blog.
“After you’ve booked your trip, these new tools will simplify every step of your trip once you’ve touched down–from getting around a new city to reliving every moment once you’re home.”
Google is not a company which makes money by accident.
The acquisitions of Android and DeepMind certainly added new elements to the business model, its smart speakers and push into the connected car offer more engagement points moving away from traditional user interface, and Maps is an on-going project which seems to never get old.
From the ashes of Google Trips rises a set of new features for Google Maps, it would appear.
Of course, we knew that these features were on the way, as Google said that it would implement much of Trips’ functionality in Maps and Search when it decided to sunset the app.
Essentially, then, it seems that the decision to shut down Trips was made in part to consolidate functionality among Google’s lineup of apps.
The first organizes all of your upcoming trips in one place – when you open the Google Maps app and tap the menu icon in the upper left corner, you can view all of your future trips by selecting “Your Places” and then navigating to the “Reservations” tab.
Tapping on a trip will pull up all of the reservations associated on that trip, whether you’re looking for flight information or hotel bookings.
You’ll be able to view your reservation information even if you’re offline, so if you find yourself in a spot with no internet access, you still be able to see where you need to go.
Use Google maps trip planner to unleash the authentic places around the globe.
Become Expert to fix Google Maps direction not working in AndroidGoogle Maps is a splendid feature of the Google service that offers an amazing way to search out the direction of your house and office.
This kind of service is unpredictable and it has brilliant technology to search for every detail of the location you are searching for.
Most of the people are quite active to notice an error and in recent times Google Map users have reported an error in connection with the direction that is not working fine on an Android smartphone.It is necessary to know the cause of the error helps you to know the clue to solve this trouble soon.
There are a number of ways to fix Google maps directions, not working issues, through which help you can use your Google Map without any technical snags at any time.Solution 1:Check the internet connection:When you start searching for the location using the direction mode on your Google Map, it is drastically important to check the internet connection.
When you find your internet is not working fine, it will be important to check out the WI-FI or router to get the connection of the internet and start Google Maps' direction to work fine perfectly.The text above is a summary, you can read full article here
In the Q2 earnings conference of Google held on Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai not only shared revenue figures but also gave users assurance of something critical.
Data is of utmost value in today’s time and it is very important to understand where your data goes.
Sundar Pichai’s focus in the conference was mainly on data security.
In Q2, Google announced that they will improve data security and privacy by giving users clear instructions about where their data will go.
Google is planning to make privacy controls easy and accessible to each and every Google application starting from Google Maps to Gmail.
The main focus of Google nowadays is to help users understand where their data is going and how they can take control of their own data.
