Google Maps and Search add business holiday hours

Unsure if your favorite restaurant or shop is open or closed this holiday season? Google is helping you out in this department by adding holiday hours of businesses. Businesses where holiday hours aren’t listed will show a warning message that alerts you that actual business hours might be different because of the holidays. If the shop you want to visit is indeed closed during the time you want to visit it, you can select the Open Now filter to see which shops or restaurant is open nearby.

Source: Google Maps

Google now links you to iOS apps within Safari mobile

With Spotlight Search in iOS 9 it’s much easier to be redirected to apps you want to access, so why would you even need to use search engines to look for these things? That’s what Google is trying to fight against. The company’s hoping you still use its search engine to do as much you can, even in Apple’s iOS ecosystem. And so this time if you search for iOS apps or contents in these apps within Google search, you will be redirected to the downloaded app or to the App Store. Previously, you could only do this in Google Chrome browser or Google app. But now you can also do this within the mobile Safari app.

Source: Google Developers | Via: The Verge

Google now shows tweets in desktop search results

A few months back Google started adding recent and relevant tweets to your searches on mobile. This time, Google's bringing that feature to desktop search results as well. If you type in a person and the word Twitter, you might see their recent tweets. But if you type in something more general like NASA Twitter, for example, you'll get both tweets from NASA's official Twitter account and tweets from other users talking about the space agency. This new feature should be rolling out to all users. 

Source: Google | Via: Engadget 

Find snippets of movie reviews by adding the word ‘reviews’ to your Google Search

Want to find out what critics are saying about the new Fantastic Four? You can catch what reviewers are saying by just adding the word reviews right after the movie title. Your search result will show you a Rotten Tomatoes score, a Common Sense Media score, and a Metacritic score, alongside the snippets of reviews. So the next time you’re stumped about what to see, you can check these out if it’s worth heading to the cinema to catch the flick.

Source: Google System | Via: Lifehacker