Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...

Update (9/12/25): Google Maps is back online. It's not just you: Google Maps is down. According to 9to5Google, the outage started sometime around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. PT), and seems to be isolated to the ...

Google is rolling out new tools in Google Ads designed to unify web and app advertising, making it easier for marketers to deliver consistent customer journeys and measure performance across platforms ...

The Google Maps app is functioning properly again after thousands of users across the country reported problems with the app Thursday afternoon, including in the Chicago area. According to the website ...

The release of the latest iOS update put Apple back on the map in the navigation space, with Apple Maps getting new incident reports for users running the app behind the wheel. Apple Maps has long ...

Outside of Chrome, Drive, and Quick Share, Google rarely makes native desktop apps with everything usually being based in the browser. That’s changing today with a new experimental “Google app for ...

The battle in the navigation space is indeed fiercer than it was 10 years ago, but Google Maps and Waze continue to dominate this market. In addition to many other benefits offered to mobile users, ...

Google has so many products that it can be near-impossible to keep track. And yet, the company has rarely created desktop apps to go with those services. There are a handful, like Drive and Quick ...

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

Google’s app can search local files, in Google Drive, and on the web. Google’s app can search local files, in Google Drive, and on the web. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

Since the Pixel 10 and Android 16 launch, the pace of M3 Expressive updates has slowed down, but Google Maps is readying some tweaks. The carousel for Directions, Start, Ask (Gemini), Call, Save, ...

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