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Media and PR
Street View has endless uses, and it's hard not to be excited about most of them.
Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press | 8 years ago
Online Travel
Skift | 8 years ago
Geolocation is everything to travel now. From the smartphone in your hand to recommendations based on location coming to you on your desktop, information is tied to real-world locations now in ways that have revolutionized travel.
Rafat Ali, Skift | 8 years ago
It doesn't matter that Apple Maps is a challenge -- to say the least. Users aren't in the habit of downloading another app to navigate, even if that app is one of the better apps ever created.
Guardian | 9 years ago
Airlines
Google has the resources, but not necessarily the focus, to become a go-to resource for airport images and information.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago
Tourism
These Brand USA campaigns will be under great scrutiny from budget hawks in Congress, who would love to eliminate the countrywide promotional arm for U.S. tourism. The map/trip-planning idea sounds promising, but it all depends on its execution.
Google may never become the online booking killer that everyone expected it to become, but it can surely be the best travel information utility service on the planet, and it is using Maps to leverage into it.
Rafat Ali, Skift | 9 years ago
Google is all grown up now and won't take chances on integrating Waze's reports about police speed traps into Google Maps. That takes some of the life and authenticity out of the Waze community.
Dennis Schaal , Skift | 9 years ago
