With Popular Times, Google introduced a nifty little feature for its search engine last year that lets you know how busy a restaurant, coffee shop or bartypically is at any given time of the week. Today, its taking this concept a step further bymaking this tool real-time. So now, you will know exactly how long the line is going to bebefore you even head out to your favorite brunch place on Sunday morning.
Like before, the Popular Times widget will appear when you look for a restaurant or bar in Google Search and Google Maps. It uses anonymized location data and searches to determine how busy a place currently is.
In my experience, the non-real time version was always pretty accurate, but it obviously doesnt account for any special events that maychange how many peoplecrave Bloody Marys on any given Sunday. In case Google gets it wrong, though, you wont get your time back but you can send it a correction.
Google already lets you know how long people lingeredat a given place, so if youre trying to figure out if you can still squeeze in a quick coffee before your next meeting, the combination of the new real-time data and this existing feature will hopefully get you there on time.
As far as I can see, the new real-time Popular Times feature isnt live yet, but I would expect it to be available in the next few hours.
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