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Google Maps: the new local features are here

We updated this article on 11/18/2022, when some local features announced by Google during Search On are finally available.
Live View, for example, allows users to search in augmented reality. They can use their camera to find local establishments nearby. For now, the novelty is available in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo.
Do you want to eat a truffle pizza tonight? Good news, all you have to do is type “truffle pizza near me” and Google will redirect you to restaurants that serve this dish nearby. Visual search with Google Lens is also available. For the moment, this other novelty can only be used in the United States. To learn more about these and other features coming soon, you can read the rest of the article below. Change is (still) now on Google Maps. Google has just announced 3 new promising features for its application.
"Live view", "Neighborhood vibe" and "Immersive view" will soon complete the app's already full range of options. Much more than a simple GPS designed to manage daily journeys, it has become essential for local businesses. Hence the interest of optimizing your Google My Business listings to boost your local SEO and web-to-store traffic at the same time. In short, let's take stock of the 3 new features that will arrive in the coming months.
"Live view" to launch augmented reality searches Augmented reality on Google Maps? It's not really new. The app has been integrating this feature since 2019. With "Live view", Google goes even further. From now on, Maps will no longer just display the route to follow in augmented reality. Users will also be able to launch searches in AR (“Augmented Reality”). Here is the example given by Google: “Let’s imagine that you go to the market and you need to withdraw some money. Thanks to Live view, all you have to do is raise your phone and search for “cash dispenser” to instantly see the cash dispensers around you”.

Although Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse is struggling to take off, it is still a priority for Meta, Facebook's parent company. Recently, the group announced the layoff of 11,000 employees, along with a plan to cut expenses. Nevertheless, the metaverse, along with augmented reality and virtual reality products, is among the company's priority projects.
In its strategy to democratize the metaverse, Meta regularly organizes virtual events. In October, for example, Meta hosted (and funded, according to Variety) a virtual haunted house experience, produced by Eli Roth and featuring actress Vanessa Hudgens. Another experience, based on the horror movie Nope, was hosted by Meta's platform, Horizon World.And soon, users of Mark Zuckerberg's company metaverse will be able to attend a one-of-a-kind concert, the kind of concert you wouldn't attend in the real world. Indeed, this is a concert by one of the greatest rappers, Notorious B.I.G., who died 25 years ago.
“Notorious B.I.G. IS BACK. His music, his flow, his influence are unmatched. See it like you've never seen it before," reads the event announcement on the rapper's Facebook page.

All messaging apps should have the new Google Chat to avoid disturbances

The next update to Google Chat will add more customization capabilities to the status, including the ability to control when we don't want to be disturbed.

There is nothing worse than doing something and suddenly receiving a message that requires our attention; Many apps, like Google Chat, allow you to change your status to "Do Not Disturb," but you have to remember to change it every time.

Today, Google has announced a novelty that will allow us to activate the "Do Not Disturb" status automatically and without having to be constantly aware of it.

Do Not Disturb Mode in Google Chat

With the next update, Google Chat will allow us to program the Do Not Disturb mode, so that it activates itself at the times we have chosen. In this way, we don't have to do anything and the app will automatically notify our contacts that we don't want them to bother us, and it will silence the notifications in case they speak to us.

Currently, Google Chat already allows us to limit the amount of time that we do not want to be disturbed. If we click on the option to change the status and choose "Do not disturb", we can choose between 30 minutes and 24 hours, or impose a specific date and time. But that is only useful if we want to be undisturbed from now on, what if, for example, we don't want to be disturbed from tomorrow at 1:00 p.m.? That's where the new feature comes in.

The new Do Not Disturb option for Google Chat We can create several records of times when we do not want to be disturbed, as well as choose the days of the week. For example, it can be very useful to put it from Monday to Friday at lunchtime, so that notifications don't distract us; Or we may be interested in it for the weekends, and thus escape all the work messages. The chances are much greater than before.

The new function will reach both the Google Chat app for Android, as well as the web version, and for all users with a Google account; on this occasion, it will not be limited to users with professional or company accounts.

This is a feature that all messaging apps should implement. Much has been said about the need to disconnect from our mobile, to stop spending all day waiting for notifications, and a function like this will help a lot to stop receiving messages when we don't want to.