Google Trips : Powered by a 280 Year old Algorithm.

Google has recently added two new apps to its catalogue of Google made apps. One being Google Allo, a smart messaging app that helps you say more and do more, and let’s you to express yourself better with stickers, doodles, and HUGE emojis & text. Allo brings you the Google Assistant, preview edition. While the second being the Google Trips.

Google Trips makes exploring the world easier by organizing your essential info in one place and making it available even offline. It efficiently manages one of the most tiresome aspects of going out on vacations.

The hero of this article is Google Trips, which uses an algorithm that’s 280 years old. You might be surprised on hearing this. In a world that’s built on billions of lines of code to achieve smartness, a 280 year old algorithm would definitely amaze a person.

To notify you it’s the programming languages that grow old and not the Algorithms, which are outcomes of great research and logical calculations. Sometimes these algorithms come in hand to solve the modern day problems, just like in this case.

You might have heard about the 7-bridge problem. It was published in a research paper by mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1736. The problem was to get around the city of Königsberg using each of the seven bridges only once. “As it turns out, for the city of Königsberg, the answer is no”.

Euler proposed the concept of Geometriam Situs (Geometry of Place), now known as the Graph Theory. Google researchers have used Euler’s paper as the basis to come up with solutions to problems more complex than visiting the bridges. They had finally come up with making several iterations to help you find efficient routes so that you don’t end up visiting a museum when it’s closed.

To know more about the algorithm you can read the Google Blog post.

In this way a 280 year old Algorithm helped in solving a beautiful app that could be used by millions. There may be chances that some old Algorithm may soon create a billion dollar company. All you need is to make your aim for a billion dollar idea that could solve a simple problem in an efficient way.

Google Trips is available for both Android and iOS.

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