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Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (Jada Jones/ZDNET)
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Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature to over 130 countries in English, adding agentic capabilities for food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching.
This represents Google deploying AI agents in a mainstream consumer product at significant scale, moving Maps from information retrieval to transactional action. For engineers building location-based or commerce services, Google is now a more capable agentic competitor.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
Ask Maps feature powered by Gemini expands to 130+ countries in English.
New agentic capabilities allow users to order food, book hotels, and search for attractions directly through the interface.
The expansion shifts Maps from a search-and-display tool toward an action-taking platform integrated with third-party services.
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