More ads on the new YouTube and Maps apps should help Google offset that decline of usage, and revenue, on the iPhone.
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It will also include other Google Inc. services like the Chrome browser, Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps.
The firm said that it will more clearly label results from YouTube, Google Maps and its other sites.
So it includes, you know, YouTube, Google Maps, the Web browser, phone functionality, contact management, calendar, alarm clock, like everything in a bundle.
Like most Android phones, the S4 comes with a suite of useful Google apps, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and the voice assistant Google Now.
Things like YouTube and Google Maps and so on.
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The app wouldn't appear to pose a direct threat to Google because it could potentially help phone makers and wireless carriers sell more Android devices, which include Google's revenue-generating search service, YouTube, Google Maps and other services, rather than those made by rival Apple.
But in order to get certified they have to include the usual suite of Google products, search, Maps, YouTube and so on.
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What if Apple decides to dump Google search from the literally hundreds of millions of devices and computers it has out there like it just did to Google maps and Youtube?
"It was the first phone with a really good mobile Web browser, and we saw five times the average usage of things like Google Maps and YouTube" compared with online habits, says Vic Gundotra, Google's head of mobile developer relations.
This time we have much more to choose from, including YouTube, ChatOn, GMail, Maps, Internet and, well, you get the idea.
In other words, Apple has dumped Google (GOOG)-owned YouTube just like it previously dumped Google Maps.
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Google-owned properties like YouTube, Blogger, Google Images and Google Maps already show up frequently in Google search results, points out search engine marketer Rand Fishkin.
And Google has already fused online services such as maps, e-mail and its YouTube video service with the iPhone.
After Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Gmail and YouTube were the top apps on Android and iOS devices in December.
YouTube has been optimized for the new tablet, as has Google Maps.
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YouTube seems to be virtually unusable over EDGE at the moment, but Safari and Maps are pretty bearable.
Google has not yet announced an official Google Maps iOS app, but many suspect it will, just as it did for YouTube after Apple removed the video-service's baked-in app.
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