Google Maps Suggests New Places You Might Like
Google keeps adding new features to Google Maps and Google Earth . The latest: As of today you can type in a restaurant or other place you like in Google Maps and receive recommendations of nearby places you might like just as much or more. Sure, it’s not quite as radical as something like the rumored store interior pics in Google Street View , but it’s always good to see more robust location services. Yelp offers something vaguely similar with a “people who viewed this also viewed” box, but Google’s algorithm is probably more sophisticated. Google has beaten location-focused services like Foursquare to the punch with this. That’s too bad, because we imagine Foursquare could…
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