Google Maps just got smarter. The company announced that Maps will get a new Gemini-powered ‘Ask Maps’ feature that makes the UX more conversational. This is just the latest in a sequence of updates that bring more AI to Google Maps, and the latest development in the ongoing mapping wars.
As Google continues to flex its muscles with Gemini, the latest search product getting an AI infusion is mapping and navigation. By bringing Gemini to Google Maps, users can have conversational dialogues, a la AI Mode, as they’re out shopping or looking for something to eat in a new neighborhood.
Just a few weeks after the latest batch of Gemini-centric updates in Google Maps, it’s out with a new set of features. True to the mapping wars, these are meant to gain an edge on Apple Maps, and the other challengers.
Gemini’s integrations in Google Maps have ratcheted up with a more conversational interface that can be best described as an in-route concierge. While driving, users can do things like ask Gemini about places of interest along their route, or any other specific urges.
Google. It has merged electric vehicles (EVs) with one of the most inherently “local” topics out there: mapping. By combining charging-station location data in Google Maps with real-time car diagnostics, it’s able to be a smart copilot for EV owners suffering from range anxiety.
Apple Maps’ new self-serve business listings feature follows Google’s model for Google Business Profiles (GPB). Known as Apple Business Connect, it allows SMBs to add and maintain their listings.
Google has announced an HD version of its vehicle mapping solution that’s core to its Google Automotive Services division. It’s meant to empower L2 or L3 assisted-driving systems to better “see” the road.
Google’s annual Search On event featured several updates to core search and orbiting products like Maps. Given the prominence and centrality of mapping to local commerce, we’ll start there. We break down the drivers and dynamics.
While reporting on Google’s new features in Maps this week, it occurred to us that a deeper dive is necessary on Google’s visual search Interests. We dive into its drivers and dynamics in this follow-up piece.
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