The Four New Features in Google Maps That Make Travel Easier
Photo Caption: The new feature in latest update to Google Maps preview version: adding events search.
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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.
Even as Apple has been trying to rework its maps efforts -- with a radical new redesign for iOS 7 and Hopstop acquisition -- Google has been consistently adding features in its Google Maps app after it came back on iOS in December 2012 and quickly surpassed 10 million downloads. Google has since rolled out update after update, like live traffic alerts and transit updates in major cities. It bought traf
