The Wuhan lung cancer (COVID-19) epidemic continues to spread around the world. In most countries, it is recommended or even mandatory for citizens to “stay home well“Under the policy, most stores have also adopted measures to suspend operations. However, compared with this kind of temporary closure outside normal business hours, although Google Maps originally had a warning function to prompt that business hours may change for specific activities, after all, this epidemic has caused most stores to suspend operations. In response to the epidemic, Google Maps will also have a function that allows businesses/schools to mark “temporarily closed”.
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In response to the epidemic, Google Maps will allow businesses/schools to mark “temporarily closed”
Although if it evolves to a situation where people are not recommended to go out, in theory, most stores should usually be expected to not open normally. However, after all, there may still be users who refer to incorrect business hours and may misunderstand that there is still a problem of business visits. Now Sundar Pichal also announced that Google Maps has added a “temporary business suspension” option, allowing stores and schools to choose this temporary marking function to survive the rising epidemic.
according to Description of the Google page, you can use “Google My Business” page, find the “Information” button on the left side of the menu, then select the arrow symbol for “Mark this business as closed on Google” and select “Mark as temporarily closed” to have your store marked as closed. In this way, consumers can avoid the problem of missing out when they see the Google Maps business hours and think there is still a store open.
Although there are relatively few policies to completely suspend operations in Taiwan at this stage, if some stores choose to suspend operations as a precaution, please remember to set it up in this way. That is to say, when I was writing this report and found Google’s business description page, I also noticed that there was also a warning on the page, “To prevent the health risks caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19), we have reduced the number of specialists in the support team.” and then compared it. News about the Chrome browser being suspended due to the epidemic. It has to be said that many services that were taken for granted in the past have been affected by the impact of the Wuhan pneumonia on digital and physical life. This is really a situation that was difficult to imagine in the past.
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Source: KOCPC Chinese