You can now ask Google Maps’ AI to order food for you
Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.The AI-powered “Ask Maps” tool in Google Maps can now perform a broader range of personalized and conversational requests, including ordering food, finding hotels, and providing suggestions that factor in your existing plans. For example, Google says you can ask it to “order spicy pad kee mao with seafood for me to pick up on my way home” before leaving work, and Ask Maps will find open restaurants along your route back that serve that meal. When you select a restaurant, Ask Maps can automatically add the dish to your cart so you can complete the order.
- ▪Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.The AI-powered “Ask Maps” tool in Google Maps can now perform a broader range of personalized and conversational requests, including ordering food, finding hotels, and
- ▪For example, Google says you can ask it to “order spicy pad kee mao with seafood for me to pick up on my way home” before leaving work, and Ask Maps will find open restaurants along your route back that serve that meal.
- ▪When you select a restaurant, Ask Maps can automatically add the dish to your cart so you can complete the order.
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- ▪ Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (Jada Jones/ZDNET) — Techmeme
- ▪ Google Maps just added a feature that lets you order food without leaving the app — Android Authority
- ▪ Now you can chat with Google Maps to order food, reserve hotels and more — Engadget
- ▪ Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings — TechCrunch
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