Slowly but certainly, Google Map s is satisfying up with more and more places. If you search in a main city, you are probable to find landmarks, museums, restaurants and famous stores labeled right on the map even if you did not specially search for them.

If you drag up a map of midtown Manhattan , for example, you'll see museums like MOMA and the American Folk Art Museum, with tourist attractions like the "Tree at Rockefeller Center." And some of the famous buildings are also marked, like the Trump Tower, the Sony Building, and the CBS building. Churches and chocolate stores exhibit up as well.

You can also see High-end stores like Harry Winston and Takashimaya on the map, as are more common ones such as the Gap. Some famous restaurants are also highlighted. La Cote Basque, an pricey French restaurant on 55th Street is on there, but so is Sapporo, a great Japanese noodle house on 49th.


When you click on a labeled building or landmark, an information window pops open with the accurate address, phone number, description, and link to a Wikipedia book if available. And as you zoom in extra places become visible. At some point the map could improve category of crowded, Google hopefully is looking at search history and click behavior to surface the most essential places. In map, each place becomes a visual search result. I like the direction this is going.

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