Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching
THE SO WHAT
Gemini-powered Ask Maps turning search into end-to-end food ordering and hotel booking across 130+ countries is Google pushing agentic flows directly into a high-intent surface. Local businesses and travel players should assume more transactions will be intermediated by Google’s agent layer — and tune inventory, offers, and data quality for machine, not human, consumption.
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