How does Google determine how busy a business is in real time?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Hehe my neighborhood street was completely red on google maps at 1am the other night, said it would take 5 minutes to get from one end to the other.

I even know which house the slow driver lives at because that’s where the line goes from red to blue(skips yellow completely)

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