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Google search can help feed your curiosity and your stomach I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update the next time you search for a restaurant on Google you'll also be able to order food right from the search results google searches made on mobile phones include a link to place an order for nearby restaurants and that takes you to a delivery service like seamless grub hub or eat 24 so why is Google doing this because it sees Yelp as competition it doesn't want you going to Yelp to search for a place to eat instead of google along with search google is also a leader in maps and many tech companies rely on Google's maps including the ride service uber but it seems ebers trying to steer away from its dependency on Google and wants to buy nokia's here maps the New York Times says sources saying uber put down a three billion dollar bid to buy nokia's here maps but automakers like BMW audie and mercedes-benz may also be in a bidding war over Nokia's maps as more services tie into location tech companies see mapping becoming increasingly important and as you may know uber wants to create a fleet of driverless cars that future world would require a good mapping system we may know who wins the bidding war by the end of the month meanwhile ubers main car service competition lift is trying to gain more passengers with a new verizon partnership the lift app will come pre-loaded on all verizon android phones another area changing quickly is online video it appears that Spotify a music streaming company wants to add web video to its business The Wall Street Journal reports Spotify is talking to companies that specialize in distributing video for youtube we may learn more about that at an event Spotify as holding for media in New York on May twentieth so yes Spotify is going after a piece of YouTube and so is reddit the site announced its making original video to become a larger force in media for starters you'll see videos for ask me anything Q&A s with all this news of streaming let's take a moment to remember the 2.1 million people in the US who cannot enjoy any of this because they're still using AOL dial-up to get online through a phone line yes that means this sound still part of life for more than 2 million people and many of those people are paying twenty dollars a month for it hey we'll share the numbers in its quarterly earnings report in most cases people are sticking with dial-up because either they don't want to change or it's hard or expensive to give broadband where they live and what makes it so sad is that websites are gunked up with junk like tracking ads and auto playing videos so dial-up customers probably can't load most website pages before it times out today most rod band speeds are about 200 times faster than dial-up that your tech news update you can head over to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey goodbye