Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (Jada Jones/ZDNET)

Ask Maps is becoming a wider Gemini travel and local-commerce tool, not just a place-search feature.

Google is expanding the English version to more than 130 countries. The update adds agentic actions for ordering food, booking hotels, and finding attractions. Techmeme attributes the report to Jada Jones at ZDNET. Techmeme's note