Google launches Hotel Finder, just in time after watching ‘No Strings Attached’

The mighty search engine giant has just launched Hotel Finder, a service that lets you find a place to lay your weary head in these great fifty states. At first glance, it’s little more than a specific use case for Google Maps — just type in a city or US zip code to get a map with the usual spreads of pinpoints.

Though Google won’t be the middleman booking your hotel reservation, you can use the tool to fine-tune your search, drawing circles on the map to scour multiple neighbourhoods. As you’d expect, you can also whittle the search by price and rating, and read reviews that people originally posted on Google Maps.

One thing we’re liking about the UI is that you don’t have to open a new tab to read the full spill on a hotel — you can just click the listing to see it expand right there, alongside pretty photo collages.

SOURCE via Google