Google understands the changing trends where users in a restaurant do not eat food before taking a decent picture of it first.
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Earlier this year, Google has closed Tablescape app – its food shot app by which you can upload photo of your tasty food with some caption.
Back in February, we told you about a new experimental service at Google called Tablescape.
The service is not unlike Google’s shuttered Tablescape feature, also designed for tech-savvy foodies.
The new feature could impact on businesses who will see their online image defined by users. Android Police picked up an email sent out to guides who have contributed more than 50 reviews to the Local Guides programme.
By collecting what are likely to be higher-quality food photos from this community of volunteer local guides, Google could quickly and easily augment its business listings with additional and useful information for searchers.
Google is testing a new feature in its maps app that could help restaurants increase their brand awareness when customers take photos of their food. Since this is a Google Maps feature, you need to simply turn off Maps notifications from the app’s settings menu.
It’s unclear if the feature is going to move past the “early rollout” and become available to the entire Google Maps user base.
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Google’s move suggests it wants to wrest the initiative from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, where most food snaps wind up. These users receive an alert when Google Maps finds that they’ve taken a food-related photo, and it prompts them to attach that photo to a location.
