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Even better than prettier screenshots for Google’s flight calculator, currency conversions, and local time lookups, is an UI that makes the most important information easier and quicker to find.

The update helps travelers translate the physical world around them, as well as improves upon the app's voice translations, dialects, and Japanese symbol recognition.

Although this is a snapshot of Google searches only, Japan reported the highest number of mobile Olympic searches and data suggested tablets were used more often than smart phones in vacation hot spots.

Joining 200 countries where Map Maker has already launched, Australia can now add its local flavor -- from resorts to hiking trails -- to a list of contributions to be approved by Google.

Google's willingness to be forthcoming shouldn't be confused with transparency. There's no reason it would have spent the time necessary writing the programs to allow it to capture this data if it did not intend to do something with the data.

The EU isn't buying Google's claims that preferencing its own products improves the user experience. U.S. regulatory authorities are lagging in their probes.

How wonderful is it that the tech heavyweights are having an arms race to provide users with the best free maps the world has ever seen?

Google's loss of Marissa Mayer, who choreographed the Zagat acquisition, to Yahoo won't slow big plans for the the Zagat integration into Google search.

Expect a lot more airport, airline, airport restaurant and hotel coverage from Zagat as its content begins to permeate Google search.