With the new “For you” feature, Google Maps turns into a food and wine cicerone and, before you ask, tells you where you might go to eat
After announcing it a few months ago, Google is integrating the new “For you” feature, which will turn Google Maps into a sort of food and wine cicerone that knows everything about your tastes in food and drink. And, thanks to this information, it will suggest which nearby restaurants are best suited to your preferences.
The “For you” tab should soon appear on all of our smartphones. Or, at least, most of us. As the developers of the house of Mountain View let us know, “For you” will initially be available in 130 countries in the Android version of Google Maps and in over 40 countries in the iOS version of the digital mapping app. To access the suggestions on where to eat plate Big G will simply do a search in Google Maps or be geolocalized and then open the tab “For you”. As simple as drinking a glass of water, in short.
How the “For you” tab of Google Maps works
If you’re wondering how Google knows what I like to eat, chances are you’re not the only one. But, believe it or not, you gave it this information yourself. As is now well known, Google keeps track of our movements and the searches we do while we’re out and about and is able to link this information together and derive additional data. Thanks to the artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms made in Mountain View, capable of inferring new information from those in its possession.
So, from the searches you do while you’re out and about and from the data on where you eat (and the reviews you leave on Big G), Google Maps will be able to find out what restaurants, pubs or bars in your vicinity you might like and suggest them to you. In this way you can save time and you can choose the restaurant where to eat at a stroke.