{"id":4893,"date":"2017-09-17T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2017-09-17T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:22:25","slug":"google-add-video-reviews-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/google-add-video-reviews-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to add video reviews to Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing video reviews with its \u201cLocal Guides\u201d programme that would allow users (who are part of the programme) to shoot 10-second videos right from Maps or upload 30-second video clips from their camera.<!--more-->To upload video reviews to Maps, the user has to look for and select a place in Maps, scroll down and select \u201cadd a photo,\u201d tap the \u201ccamera\u201d icon and then hold the shutter to record or upload a short video, TechCrunch reported late on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This feature is available on Android devices only for now.<\/p>\n<p>The company introduced this feature to the \u201cLocal Guides\u201d about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Google is now notifying users about it via email and will likely release it for public in the near future,<\/p>\n<p>Previously, users could attach only photographs to locations on Google Maps and there was no option to add videos.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing video reviews with its \u201cLocal Guides\u201d programme that would allow users (who are part of the programme) to shoot 10-second videos right from Maps or upload 30-second video clips from their camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4895,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}