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Google begins beta test of Trips, a new travel companion app

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<p>Google Now and the company’s Inbox app already do a pretty good job when it comes to collecting and organizing all those pesky travel details.</p><p>But Google wants to go further by serving as your local tour guide with a new app called Trips. After teasing it last week (http://www.greenbot.com/article/3060244/google-preps-a-new-travel-app-to-launch-in-beta-next-week.html), a beta build is now on the way to some members of the Local Guides program (http://www.greenbot.com/article/3029261/android/googles-local-guides-program-get-free-stuff-and-nifty-trip-summaries.html), which is Google’s equivalent of Yelp Elites. </p><figure class="large "><a class="zoom" href="https://cms-images.idgesg.net/images/article/2016/04/google-trips-preview-100658611-orig.jpeg"><img src="(http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/04/google-trips-preview-100658611-large.jpeg)" alt="google trips preview" width="580" height="522"/>[/url] <small class="credit">AndroidWorld.nl (http://androidworld.nl/apps/google-trip-beta/) </small> <figcaption>
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