At its annual developers conference, Google announced an overwhelming number of updates to search, maps, games, and music. Here's a guide to the features you'll want.
Gone is the information sidebar. Now everything is displayed on top of the full-screen map, instead. Users can also restrict local search results to those that have been recommended.
"Motorville," a short video where all the characters are pulled from OpenStreetMap, tells a (slightly ham-fisted, but adorable) tale of America’s dependency on fossil fuels.