The system worked by giving out local destination tips and other ideas from those in a user’s Google+ circles, celebrities and professionals, such as travel writers.
It also included content from the Zagat service which Google had purchased just a few months before in September 2011.
There was no commercialisation of the products suggested in the system, essentially it was just an ideas engine, but was enough of a move by Google to put many of the tours and activities providers (booking services, person-to-person marketplaces) on alert given that it was the Big G’s first foray into the sector.
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