#Google maps code#

Why can't I see a map of all those event locations alongside the calendar with all the same event details listed? Why can't I associate a Google Calendar event with a specific album or set of photos in Google Photos and see those in the map and calendar as well? I have a week of events coming up in Google Calendar each with a different event location. It is absolutely bizarre to me how half-assed Google is with integrating its products. (Whether it actually does benefit users is of course debatable.) It's also possible that someone is trying to increase the percentage of searches that have location information, that doesn't seem terribly far-fetched either, and I can imagine lots of ways people could try to rationalize it as actually benefiting users.

#Google maps code#

So it's possible that this change is just a code cleanup. In any case, though, my understanding is that the technical capacity for this has existed for nearly 10 years now, just behind a configuration setting.

I recall seeing maps hosted at /maps around that time, but I don't know if that was ever launched fully or if it was just an experiment.

So the big Maps frontend rewrite actually ended up merging MFE into GWS, the web search frontend server. The rumor I heard was that someone (possibly even Larry himself) wanted to be able to have interactive maps directly on the search results page, so that the navigation from a search query to a map wouldn't involve even a page reload. I recall from my time in Google Geo years ago that the idea of integrating Search and Maps was a big part of the 'New Maps' release that happened around 2014.