Google is making serious investments in voice search. After launching voice controlled searches on google.com and its Android and iPhone apps, Google is bringing voice search to Google Maps in the US.
The maps include all of Street View’s data, including the ability to walk round inside certain venues, such as this San Francisco bar.
To use Street View on the mobile browser, users simply go to maps.google.com and search for a location. Then click the ‘pegman’ icon at the bottom right of the screen to access Street View.
“To make Google Maps even more comprehensive, accurate and useful, today we’re making Street View available on mobile browsers,” the Daily Mail quoted Amanda Leicht, Product Manager Google Maps, as writing.
“With access to Street View on your phone, you can use panoramic, street-level imagery to explore and navigate the places around you, even on the go,” she wrote.
The move is aimed squarely at Apple, which was last weeks forced to admit its own version of the Maps apps was a failure.
Google is believed to be working on a map app of its own after Apple dumped it from the built in maps app on iPads and iPhones.