Google announced on Monday, March 22nd, that Google Maps will be experimenting with displaying hotel rates in its local business listings.
With this feature, users will be able to enter a date and the number of nights the user plans to stay at a particular hotel property and see actual prices on selected listings. The price-list will also include other websites who have provided pricing information for that particular hotel.
“This new feature will not change the way that hotels are ranked in Google Maps. Google Maps ranks business listings based on their relevance to the search terms entered, along with geographic distance (where indicated) and other factors, regardless of whether there is an associated price.
While we’re experimenting with this feature, we’re currently working with a limited number of advertisers and it will only be visible to a small portion of users . As always, we’ll evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of this new feature based on both data and feedback, and hope to make it available to more users and offer prices from more partners over time.”
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