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Google Search Now Provides More Details on Local Events (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the further-expansion dept.

Google is quickly turning its event info from a nice-to-have extra into a major feature. From a report: If you're searching from your phone, you'll now find key details for events without having to jump to websites or apps. If it's a concert, for example, you'll find out where and when it's taking place, directions and other details. You can either jump to a ticket service if you're sold on the idea or save an event for later. And if you're not sure what to look for, you'll get some help there as well. The For You tab includes both personalized event suggestions as well as popular and trending events. If you're big on food festivals, you may see the latest barbecue appear front and center.

19 comments

  1. I gave up on Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Once upon a time the results produced by Google were always spot on for what I was looking for. Sadly over the last couple years they've pushed "local" results and what they "think" I'm looking for so hard that the stuff I'm really looking for is almost impossible to find. I've given up on Google and now use another search engine. Occasionally I've hoped back thinking maybe they've fixed their issues, but it seems like they keep doubling down on the direction they're going in. Best wishes to them, but I'll find my results elsewhere.

    1. Re:I gave up on Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what they "think" I'm looking for so hard that the stuff I'm really looking for is almost impossible to find

      They know you better than you know you.

      Just because they're showing you dragon dildos and fur suits doesn't mean bad profiling. They just looked at you, your purchases, and all you do and said, hey - this guy goes in this very specific bucket of deviant.

      Sometime soon it will awaken in you and you'll want to apologize to Google.

    2. Re:I gave up on Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some of us don't have an account and don't have a gmail.

    3. Re:I gave up on Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol

    4. Re:I gave up on Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure but if you e.g. delete your youtube cookie this reset your youtube bubble.
      I'm not dumb, but I'm not sure they would deploy their full spying means (like what, conspire with ebay to know completed purchases?) to maintain a browsing bubble that they wipe if the cookie is removed.

  2. After the date by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too a kid, looking up to Tyska ... (ah, ah, ahhhhhh)
    Life ain't nothing but bitches and money.

  3. IANAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    After the date,
    imma wanna do the Imogene Cocaberry
    you want lobster, heh, I'm thinking Imogene Cocaberry.

  4. This is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Iâ(TM)d like to know the schedule of when apks mom is HOSTing

    1. Re:This is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She went back to Poland to get away from APK and left him the half of the duplex he inhabits. However APK regularly works shifts at the glory hole in the Pilot Travel Center outside of Syracuse. If someone has already manned it he takes one of the lot lizard shifts but doesn't like it as he often gets hit with a tire iron.

  5. Words to Live By ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you lick a butthoal,
    you lick it for life!!

  6. Chasing Facebook by decipher_saint · · Score: 1

    "Events Near You" has been a rather creepy feature for while on Facebook, I suspect it will only get creepier with Googles fingers in your search history / predictive algorithms...

    **Nearby Event: midget clown orgy**

    Th-thanks Google

    --
    crazy dynamite monkey
  7. Theft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google is taking your content, displaying it on their domain with ads, and keeping all of the profits.

  8. More "features"... by forkfail · · Score: 2

    ... that I neither need nor want.

    --
    Check your premises.
    1. Re:More "features"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      they get 5% from all promoted events.... nice try Google

    2. Re:More "features"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't know how you think this isn't a useful addition for just about everyone who would be searching for events.

    3. Re:More "features"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You probably wouldn't even be *in* that area if you didn't already know about that event!

  9. If only google.com/movies would come back by fortfive · · Score: 1

    It was a truly useful feature, super minimalist, super informative.

  10. How about the basics. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If only Google search would return anything relevant to my queries. For many years Google acted as if it read my mind. I frequently searched for very complicated topics (ranging from physics to circuit design) and I would get really great resources.

    Now Google seems to never return anything relevant. It wants to return what's "popular" which is useless for me.

    Case in point: I search for "Common mode noise" and see "Great deals on Common mode noise!" Yup. Thanks Google. I want Google the way it used to be. Before it was hacking worthless media for mindless consumers. When it was the most powerful scientific research tool in the world.

  11. Use StartPage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It returns Google results privately so you aren't affected by the filter bubble.