Category: Time Travel

Google Makes It Easier to Book Hotels From Your Phone

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Google’s Hotel Finder, a service I use almost every single time I travel, is now better suited for mobile browsing. Google updated the hotel-deal-finding site with a mobile UI that makes it easy to sort by price, hotel class, user rating, and distance. They also show you photos, hotel amenities, reviews, and location on a […]

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Google Trekker to put the Galapagos Islands on Street View, one tortoise at a time

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Google’s Street View Trekker has already captured some dramatic scenery in its young life, but we haven’t seen it venture far beyond US borders. The company is making up for that in style through its recently completed image-gathering expedition to the Galapagos Islands. The visit will produce 360-degree shots of 10 representative areas chosen by the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Parks Directorate. There’s more involved than just stunning Google Maps imagery, however: the panoramas will help document any threats to the local climate and wildlife. While we’ll only see the results of the Galapagos trip later this year, it’s good to know that they should help both humans and slow-moving reptiles in equal measure.

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