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I'd love to see how the new interactive features actually work out, but for me the video isn't playing on iPad :-/

It's just an embedded youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

That's weird because I searched it on YouTube but it wasn't there before. Bit too early I guess... ;-)

Not overly impressed by any of the new features though, looks like they just pushed their recommendation engine more to the front and brushed up the UI map rendering a bit, but that's about it. Still a lot better than any other map service though.

Not all videos stored on YouTube show up on YouTube search... it's a setting.

no the big change is getting rid of dividing the screen between a list of search results and the map itself.

I'm not convinced that's a good thing in all cases -- a centralized list of search results can be useful. For example if I search google maps for "seattle register car" I get a couple results for actual auto registration places, along with airport parking, car dealerships, etc... being able to quickly filter out the junk results without mousing all over a map seems nice.

Honestly now that I think about it I have no idea what my "usual" google maps usage is so it'll be interesting to see how much that matters!

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