Articles tagged “google”

Our fave, besides the flight information: the available outlets at the gate. Metadata would become king in this scenario.

The design and choices in it would be be on the key factors in user adoption for Google Glass. That and the price, of course.

The glass and its use case compresses all of our travel communication and gadget needs in one, using the glass UI. Remains to be seen if costs come down, and people are willing to sport the same robot-glasses look.

This is manna from heaven for tech blogs, if they want to milk this.

Google's effort to get hard-to-reach places such as trails in the Grand Canyon into Google Maps is a beautiful thing.

A number of startups are trying to make flight comparison easier with pinning and saving, but Google Flight Search's update is a good model for a seamless regional search.

You have to hand it to Google for getting transit maps for Pyongyang before Apple can get MTA routes onto its New York City iOS Maps app. No word on when they'll be integrating Zagat or Google Plus, though.

Larry Page couldn't resist touting Google Maps and sticking a pin in Apple and its maps woes, although the Google co-founder didn't call out Apple by name.

It's likely the search giant will add Frommer's content into the mix once it gets normalized, if it hasn't already under Zagat branding.

Google Street View is taking its goal of mapping the world mile by mile, but some miles are slower than others when dealing with a government that’d prefer to not have its every street corner on the Internet.