{"id":179012,"date":"2018-06-18T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/18\/finally-a-google-update-that-i-approve-of\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T23:10:00","slug":"finally-a-google-update-that-i-approve-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/18\/finally-a-google-update-that-i-approve-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Google Update that I Approve Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/06\/google-maps-removes-uber-integration\/\">dropping Uber integration from its maps app<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Back in January 2017, Google and Uber teamed up to put <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/01\/uber-has-been-built-directly-into-google-maps\/\">a cool feature<\/a> in Google Maps: You could search for, book, and pay for an Uber all directly from Google Maps. You didn&#8217;t even need the Uber app installed. Now, 18 months later, the feature is dead. Google posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/maps\/answer\/7245278?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid\">new support page<\/a> (first spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2018\/06\/18\/you-can-no-longer-book-uber-rides-inside-google-maps\/\">Android Police<\/a>) that flatly states, &#8220;You can no longer book Uber rides directly in Google Maps.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The feature would have you search for a location in Google Maps and ask for directions like normal, but instead of choosing walking, driving, biking, or mass transit directions, a tab for ride-sharing would allow you to book a ride directly. The ride-sharing tab still exists, but instead of booking an Uber, it just gives you an estimate and offers to kick you out to the Uber app. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess?&nbsp; Other ride sharing apps were looking for a similar space, and Uber attempted to steal autonomous driving tech from Google, and Uber has simply become toxic on many levels.<\/p>\n<p>Of the three, my guess is that the latter was the deciding factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is dropping Uber integration from its maps app: Back in January 2017, Google and Uber teamed up to put a cool feature in Google Maps: You could search for, book, and pay for an Uber all directly from Google Maps. You didn&#8217;t even need the Uber app installed. Now, 18 months later, the feature &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,367,471],"class_list":["post-179012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-internet","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}