the changes in the application that have already arrived in Europe

The new changes that Google is adopting with the Digital Markets Law involve modifications to certain habits that any user may have with some of its applications. One of them is Google Maps and a total change in the way we interact when searching for a location from the search engine.

The law on digital markets already regulates American tech giants which bring important changes in the experience of the services they offer in Europe and Europe. Meta is also making changes to its WhatsApp application as well as Messenger, more closely linked to Facebook, in order to comply with the new European law.

The DMA (Digital Marketing Law) forbade Google to stop favoring its own products in search engine results. Google Flights, its widget, disappears from the top when you search for a flight. Something similar happens with Google Maps, but in a different way, so that it is decisive for your user experience.

It’s not only Google Maps also disappears from the top of search results when searching for certain locations, but the map widget is no longer as functional as before. Now when the Google Maps appears when searching for a location, it cannot be tapped or clicked.

Which means that To access this location, you must click on the directions button

because it is virtually impossible to open the Maps app from Google search results. And perhaps one might think that this is not a striking change, but it is due to the habits that we have always been accustomed to with these applications. Here are the changes made to Maps for better understanding:

• The Google Maps map in the search engine can no longer be typed or clicked.
• It no longer takes you directly to the Google Maps application on your mobile.
• To open the map, you must click on the directions button.

What he does is limit access to Maps and your experience will change even for product or establishment sheets. That is, other alternatives related to location reviews will also appear, since until now Google in its search engine gave priority to what was previously known as the Google My Business file and that hundreds of thousands of businesses use. through Europe.

An experience, according to Genbeta, which declines in favor of the protection of the European market in digital spaces in which free competition must always be present. For the end user, this means that instead of searching for a location on Google, the best thing to do is perform this search from the Google Maps application itself on your iPhone or Android mobile.