One of the most useful features in the Google Maps application, especially in the era of social distancing, is the ability to know how busy the restaurant or other business is before you arrive, and soon Google Maps will be able to show how busy the place is directly in the map view.
Google Maps has always provided occupancy indicators, the ability to
know roughly how many people are in a particular place, and even compare that
to the normal number of people for that day and time, and as is the case today,
you need to click on a specific location's menu in the Maps app to find the
occupancy indicator.
Google hosted the "Search On" event, which highlighted some
of the latest features of Google Search and related products such as Assistant
and Maps, and during the event, Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Search and
Assistant at Google, said: Busy indicators will soon appear directly on the
map.
Google Maps will place indicators like more busy than usual and busy
as much as busy under the location names, and this should help make it easier
to see where you might want to avoid when trying to maintain a proper social
distance or even just sit at a table faster. Additionally, this can be useful
to get an idea of how busy a larger area is, rather than just a narrow view
of individual spaces.
Likewise, Google Maps on Android and iOS will be able to show how
busy the place is when navigating to this location. As for when these new
features of occupancy indicators will arrive in Maps, the only timeline
provided by Google is the word (soon).
Google has also launched a large group of ads, all aimed at improving
its primary product, which is search. In Search On Even, the company explained
that it will focus on using artificial intelligence to help its users, and
among the new features is a new algorithm to better deal with misspellings in
user inquiries, the ability to discover songs from buzz, and new tools to help
students with homework, as Google announced Also, about updates to Google Lens,
and other search tools. The Google event - streamed live - was in order to
share several new developments in search ranking, made possible by the
company's latest research in artificial intelligence.
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