Google can be of great help to us on many occasions during our travels, such as to find a restaurant, the timetable for a museum, information on train arrivals and departures and it may even help us to translate a sentence. Today we are going to highlight three applications that this famous Internet search engine offers us.
Google Maps and Unesco
The association between Google and Unesco gives us the opportunity to go on a virtual visit to nearly 900 landmarks that form a part of Humanity’s cultural and natural heritage. We can journey to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and on to the ancient city of Lamu in Kenia, stopping off on the way at the Alhambra in Granada. It can be very useful in searching for information on a destination, and it is also a great source of inspiration when you are deciding where to go on a trip.
Planning your trip
Google maps can be a helpful tool in organising your trip. Before you head off, you can mark the places of interest that you want to visit, insert information (for example, timetables and public holidays) for these places and then programme routes. Once at your destination, you simply connect using your mobile phone and start up the guide that you prepared before you left.
Searching with an image
In the United States on 7 December, Google presented a new platform for mobile phones that can perform searches based on a photo instead of using words, as we have up until now. So now when you are standing in front of a building, you can simply take a picture of it to find out more information on it. This may be the end of conversations like the one that follows. (Two people in Rome): “Are you sure that this is Trajan’s Column?” “Yes…well it must be, isn’t it?” “So, what was the column we saw yesterday, then?
Having said that and in spite of our dear “friend” Google, here at blogtelpoia, we would like to advocate the traditional method of asking for information from the people we come across on our journey. This forms a part of the charm of discovering a new place.
