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Real-time location sharing on Google Maps

Productivity — Share your location directly inside Maps, in real time [Android, Maps, Tech]
Productivityest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 18 probesavg response 2064 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
blog.google
edge
direct origin
server
Google Frontend
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Real-time location sharing on Google Maps's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Locommunicationtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Wave X — Reactions & New Storiescommunicationtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Ivyentertainmenttag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Noseehealthtag-overlap100%8.0+8.0— unverified
InGame Fantasy by Fanamana.comentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Ganefinancetag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Bamsemi – Map Based SNS, Find Friends Worldwideentertainmenttag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Heyentertainmenttag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:59Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend2042alive
2026-08-17 13:41Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend2056alive
2026-08-09 19:36Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1862alive
2026-08-08 04:41Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1880alive
2026-07-31 15:39Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1616alive
2026-07-26 17:33Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1399alive
2026-07-18 14:17Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend2485alive
2026-07-13 14:05Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend3883alive
2026-07-04 16:11Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend2620alive
2026-07-03 00:50Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend2015alive
2026-06-24 13:47Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1685alive
2026-06-23 12:57Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend2201alive
2026-06-21 21:17Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1649alive
2026-06-20 19:22Z200blog.googleGoogle Frontend1504alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Real-time location sharing on Google Maps · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/real-time-location-sharing-on-google-maps · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.