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"Google Maps gets the low-tech treatment in a new ad that imagines the app as the classic Labyrinth game.\nThe online video spot, the first for Google from San Francisco ad agency Venables Bell &amp; Partners, uses a wooden gyroscopic structure to help two players navigate a blue ball. The camera follows the ball as it discovers restaurants, checks into a barbershop and then, finally, goes bowling.\nThe video was timed to coincide with CES and highlights capabilities on Google Maps like indoor maps, the ability to rate restaurants, create custom maps in Mapmaker and view traffic. A very similar animated video created by another agency, B-Reel, is designed to promote a game for Google Maps that's expected to hit Google+ Games next month. \nGoogle appears to have a soft spot for the concept of rendering its products in analog form. Early ads for the company's Chrome browser took a similar approach. In the ad featured below, for instance, cardboard webpages are changed using a metal cylinder, activated by the swing of a hammer.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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