If you’ve ever Googled a local business, you have probably seen a graph, indicating the average traffic (Popular Times) at a specific hour, during their normal business hours.
There is also a “Live” function, that shows how busy they are at that exact moment. How is that information updated in Google in real time? Does someone actually manually update this information regularly or is there some sort of algorithm that makes this determination?
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A lot of people have Android phones. The phones share their location with Google. Google’s computers can count the number of Android phones at any address. If the number is high, or there’s lots moving in and out, that place is busy. If there’s few and nobody coming or going, it’s not busy.
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