Google Maps app on your smartphone is one of those wonderful things that makes possess the contrivance an absolute joy . Instant , essential noesis . Today , Google announced that it would be plume its iOS and Android apps of their sinlessness by tolerate advertisers to advertise against your searches .
So as in the illustration in the gimmick screenland above , you ’ll no longer necessarily get the good Google final result based on your location when you look for for a gardening workshop . If there find to be a shop that has added Google ’s new localization extensions to their AdWords search drive , that ’ll be the shop that shows up . The advertised emplacement , as always , will be denoted as such .
This should n’t be all that surprising , and evidently , it ’s not something we can really be mad about . Google has spent an untold ginormous amount of money making the best damn maps app out there — and it gives it away for free . We were gon na pay for it somehow , and as far as encroachments go , this is scarcely the most offensive approach . Still , it ’s always sad to see our baby that we knew so well defile . [ Google ]
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