At Google.io yesterday, the search giant made a ton of new announcements about their products in several of the hottest products, including Maps and Search, as well as some totally new products, like their Spotify and Rdio competitor, Google Play Music All Access. Here’s all the details:

Google Maps:

·      The new version of Google Maps, gets rid of any clutter in order to put the user’s individual experience front and center. Each time you click or search, the technology draws you a tailored map that highlights the information you need.

·      Real-time personalized maps

·      Google will learn the places that the consumer frequents—home, restaurants, office, stores—using the Google services like search and Maps history.  Then when you log on it will highlight places that you visit or inquire about.

·      If you go on vacation, it will recommend places for you to go based on what other people with similar tastes like in that city—like Sushi restaurants.

·      The maps now fill almost the entire screen. 

·      Your results for things you search for are now labeled on the map.

·      They now show ads and COUPONS.

·      Google Earth’s 3D views are now incorporated into Maps.  You can now zoom in to see everything in a city.

·      It is only for desktop users for now.  They will update mobile devices soon.

Google Search:

·      Google’s voice search technology (like Siri).  It is going to allow backup or follow up questions to initial questions.  For instance, if you ask where a restaurant is, you can then ask what the phone number is, what the menu is, or what its hours are.

·      It can now have a real conversation with you, and predict information you might need.

·      You can set reminders by voice and if you are on laptops or desktops using Chrome, you can ask Google a question and it will speak the answer back to you.

Google Play Music All Access:

·      Monthly music subscription sevice

·      Works through Google Play

·      Millions of songs

·      $9.99 a month

·      Unlimited cloud based music library

·      You can choose from 22 genres of music

·      Similar to Spotify and Rdio

·      It can create playlists based on your listening patterns and tastes—Similar to Pandora

·      It beat Apple to the punch

Google +:

·      This got a lot of new features (41).

·      Big changes to Stream, Hangout, and Photos.

·      Now available on all Android and iOS devices.

·      “The user interface change. Instead of a singular content stream, which was similar to the old Facebook news feed, Google+ will now feature up to three columns of updates from you and your friends on Google+ and have photo tagging.”—Courtesy ABC News

·      Auto-Awesome feature—can make a motion photo out of different phontos from the same scene

·      “Pano” can connect photos into panoramic automatically

·      “Smile” can find a photo of you smiling and then put you into a photo where you were not smiling

·      “Auto Highlight” finds the best and most beautiful photos from a group—like a vacation.  It edits out the bad images or duplicates

·      Hangout will now allow users to switch back and forth between who is talking.

·      Notifications are synced to your devices—phone and computer

·      You can now save your conversations and re-watch later—fun and handy.