Google Search Could Soon Show Live Popular Business Times

One of the features of Google Search is that when you search for particular businesses, such as restaurants, it will show you the opening hours as well as a graph that depicts when are the most popular times. For example a restaurant located in the central business district will most probably show its peak popularity during the lunch hour.

However this information is based on past information, meaning that if today is a public holiday and offices are closed, there is a good chance that this restaurant will be relatively empty during lunch, but that could change soon. A tip received by Android Police has shown that Google appears to be testing live popular business times.

What this means is that instead of users checking out popular times based on past information, it could show you the popularity of the restaurant at this very moment. So for example if a restaurant is holding a buy one free one for sandwiches during lunch hour as a special promotion today, the search results will reflect that spike in popularity.

This is no doubt useful for users who are thinking of checking out a particular location and who might not want to fight for seats or stand in queue for a long time. There is no word on when Google plans to roll it out in earnest, but it is a great idea and one we wouldn’t mind seeing being implemented.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Web
Tags: Google