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This is what the new Google Maps is set to look like

Changes could be afoot as early as next week…

GOOGLE SEEMS TO be gearing up to release a completely new user interface for Google Maps on the Web, according to screenshots on Google Operating System, a blog that reports on Google news.

The update will strip out the sidebar, which lists businesses that match your search. Instead, everything will be displayed directly on the map.

A new feature will let you limit local search results to places with the top reviews or those recommended by friends in your Google+ circles.

Other visual changes include new icons, text styles, and the colors of the map itself.

We’re expecting Google to announce the change next week at Google I/O, its annual developers conference in San Francisco.

Here’s what the new Google Maps could look like:

Via: Google Operating System

This is what it looks like now:

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    Mute Mary Mc Carthy
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    Jul 13th 2015, 6:25 PM

    Hope he makes a full recovery.

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    Jul 13th 2015, 6:47 PM

    get well little man be a fighter

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    Mute sharon o brien
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    Jul 13th 2015, 10:02 PM

    Iv seen the devastating effects an accident like this can have… Hoping and praying he makes a full recovery… Will be in my thoughts & prayers tonight….x

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    Mute Niall Mullane
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    Jul 13th 2015, 6:41 PM

    Poor little guy hope he’s ok. Is Youghal a county now??

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    Mute Ian moylan
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    Jul 13th 2015, 6:44 PM

    In the whole article and how awful it is you still pull them on a typo.
    Sometimes u let mistakes slide
    This is one of those times Niall

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    Jul 14th 2015, 12:20 AM

    Poor Baby that’s all he is. I feel physically sick…. Please let him pull through. Thinking of him and his family tonight x x x

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    Mute Clinton Daly
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    Jul 13th 2015, 11:09 PM

    Moved to Dublin I believe this evening ,Temple Street

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    Mute Clare Caron
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    Jul 14th 2015, 1:29 PM

    So tragic that he passed away. We were at that pool with our three children the day before and (as an ex pool lifeguard myself) I was surprised to see that there was no lifeguards on poolside the two hours we were there. The odd staff member came in to test the water chemicals but there was no staff on poolside Sun morning so supervision is left to parents (there is no regulation requiring the (private) hotel pool to have lifeguards).

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