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Many parts of the world, where there is no access to Internet and it really becomes difficult for people navigating from one place to another without having mobile data or internet to get right directions. To overcome this situations Google takes a major steps to help people across globe find directions and get where they are going, even when they are out of mobile data or Internet access.

Now you can download an area of the world to your phone, and the next time you find there's no connectivity -- whether it's a country road or an underground parking garage -- Google Maps will continue to work seamlessly. Whereas before you could simply view an area of the map offline, now you can get turn-by-turn driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information about places, like hours of operation, contact information or ratings.

You can download an area by searching for a city, county or country, for instance, and tapping "Download" on the resulting place sheet, or by going to "Offline Areas" in the Google Maps menu and tapping on the "+" button. Once downloaded, Google Maps will move into offline mode automatically when it recognizes you are in a location with spotty service or no connectivity at all. When a connection is found, it will switch back online so you can easily access the full version of Maps, including live traffic conditions for your current route. By default, Google'll only download areas to your device when are on a Wi-Fi connection to prevent large data fees.

As of now Google Maps is only available for Android Smartphones. It will be coming soon to iOS.

Source: Google Maps Blog

We are all very familiar with the word Google which is an Internet Search Engine. We look for various information by typing a query on Google and we get the search results based on our queries but how many of us have the key idea of Power Search? To be honest, very few of us. Then the question arise What is a Google Power Search ? To answer it let's go by its definition provided below...

Definition: Google Power Search is a techniques of mastering the Search Skills with better knowledge, tips and tricks to become a fast, Secure and effective Searcher.

Now that we have known what is a Google Power Search it is necessary to know what sort of techniques, tips or tricks is used. Google Power Search is divided into different classes. Let's take an overview of these classes.

Overview of Google Power Search:

1. How Google Works?

2. Extending What we know

3. Advance Techniques

4. Finding facts faster

5. Checking facts

6. Putting it all together

To take the video classes of Google Power search @ YouTube click here (Note that All videos of Google Power Search is presented by Dr. Dan Russell, a Senior Research Scientist at Google) and start learning about Google Power Search in detail. For better result subscribe to the channel and stay updated with Google Power Search videos. This is very useful if you really want to master your search skills and become a Fast-facts-finder.