Google announced a variety of options throughout Google Search, Maps, Lens and different areas round journey and trip planning. A few of the options have been already on the market however let’s recap a few of the extra attention-grabbing options.
(1) Google Search AI Overviews can now give journey concepts for distinct areas and full international locations. So when you seek for “create an itinerary for Costa Rica with a concentrate on nature”, the AI response gives you a pattern itinerary filled with sightseeing and eating choices.
That is stay now and appears like this:
I am seeing that function stay now for AIOs. Fascinating. Additionally, all favicons are nuked from the hyperlinks for some purpose. Perhaps a bug. pic.twitter.com/KmhxLGrG1B
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 27, 2025
(2) AI Overviews and Google Lens, the place you’ll be able to ask Google what you’re looking at. Google stated you need to use Lens within the Google app as your AI-powered tour information this season. Simply level your digital camera, ask your query, and also you’ll get an AI Overview with useful insights, plus hyperlinks to study extra on the internet.
(3) Google has a strategy to observe resort costs; beforehand, Google solely had flight value monitoring (2017 and up to date in 2022. That is now stay globally, now you can observe resort costs whenever you browse on google.com/accommodations. Simply faucet the price-tracking toggle beneath the search filters, and also you’ll get an e mail alert if costs go down.
(4) Google Maps and screenshots: Now you can push your screenshots to Google to create plans inside Google Maps. When you permit Google Maps entry to your pictures, and it’ll mechanically determine locations captured in your screenshot, and immediate you to overview and save those you need to go to to a ‘Screenshots’ checklist.
There may be extra within the Google announcement…
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