Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  The Google Maps pin is the inverted-drop-shaped icon that marks locations in Google Maps. The pin is protected under a U.S. design patent as "teardrop-shaped marker icon including a shadow". Google has used the pin in various graphics, games, and promotional materials. The pin, sometimes referred to as "the marker", has been widely co-opted by other companies, organizations, and individuals for their own marketing efforts, artwork, and activism. In both digital and physical representations, the pin is often used to symbolize mapping software and the technology industry as a whole. The Google Maps pin has been called "a product of pure function that has evolved into a cultural phenomenon" and "a solution that would take on a life of its own, recognizable enough to stick up for itself in the art and design projects of others". "Looking like a hot air balloon in flight, this marker has landed squarely in the middle of our visual culture". In 2014, the Museum of Modern Art acquired a physical representation of the Google Maps pin for its permanent collection. In 2020, the pin icon became the official logo of Google Maps.
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin prior to the launch of Google Maps in 2005. He wanted the pin to accurately mark a point on a map without obscuring the location. The main body of the pin is circular at the top, but tapers into a point at the bottom, forming an inverted teardrop shape. A drop shadow extends from the point at the bottom, giving the pin a three-dimensional look. In the original version of Google Maps, the pin was displayed with the letters "A" through "J" when there was more than one search result. In later versions, the pin was shown with a black dot inside to mark a single location. In 2011, Google released a minor redesign of the pin that changed the black outline of the pin to a dark red for a softer look.
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  Google has used the pin in online and traditional print marketing campaigns for Google Maps. The pin is displayed as part of the icon for the Google Maps mobile application, on a stylized map along with an uppercase letter "G" for "Google."
Title: Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen
Content:  Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin while he was employed by Google. The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a narrow point with a drop shadow. A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that Rasmussen avoided using a star or dot on the map, because they would obscure too much of the map. The Google Maps Pin touches the map only at the exact point of the location. In 2014, Museum of Modern Art in New York City acquired a representation of the Google Maps Pin for its permanent collection.
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  The Google Maps pin has evolved beyond its original intended use to become quasi-iconic in popular culture. Rob Walker cites the pin as an example of dedigitization, "something from the digital world crossing over to the physical". The pin has been used in various mediums not just to pinpoint locations, but to represent abstracts like mapping technology or even the technology industry as a whole.
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  When Metahaven, an Amsterdam-based studio for design and research, was charged with drafting concepts for WikiLeaks' new visual identity, they considered integrating the Google Maps pin, inverted. This suggested a dripping leak, and the impossibility of pinpointing the source. In San Francisco, demonstrators in San Francisco have carried signs shaped like the Google Maps pin and bearing the word "evicted" to protest the recent surge in tech-driven evictions in San Francisco.
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  The pin has been used on promotional objects like beer glasses, stickers, and coffee cup sleeves in various marketing campaigns. Google has also designed and sold T-shirts that display a Google Maps pin along with the words "I am here".
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  own physical marker, which he hoped would appear in satellite images. Sollis constructed the Google Carpet of individual carpet tiles, each 185mm2, which corresponds to one pixel of Google's satellite imagery. In July 2013, as part of a public art event in Horsens, Denmark, the Icelandic-Danish design duo ÖRNDUVALD installed a mural called Pin at 55.86167°N, 9.84639°W. The 9-square-meter piece, "a giant and shimmering reinterpretation of the Google Maps pin", was made from 10,078 circular discs mounted to plywood. Amanda Kooser of cnet wrote, "if Liberace had been on the Google Maps design team, all the pins would look like 
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  In 2010, Google created online cards that used several pins to spell out "Happy Holidays". In 2011, Google doubled the Google Maps pin to create a heart for a Map Your Valentine holiday feature. In 2011, Google partnered with Susan G. Komen for the Cure to create a campaign called Pink Pin in New York City. Businesses and consumers were asked to pin their locations on the Pink Pin website, share personal stories related to breast cancer awareness, and donate to the cause. In 2014, Google launched "Smarty Pins", a browser-based geographical trivia game that features the Google Maps pin. Players receive clues about locations around the world, which they then identify by placing the Google Maps pin on a map. Players start the game with 1,000 points, and lose points equivalent to the number of miles they place their pins from the correct location. Bonus points can be gained by answering the trivia questions quickly.
Title: Google Maps pin
Content:  while Jamie Condliffe stated in Gizmodo, "The Google Maps pin is iconic: bold and simple, yet incredibly memorable. And emblazoned on the side of a Danish building in twinkling metallic form, it might just be the geekiest mural ever." In June 2012, Taiwanese designer Shu-Chun Hsiao created Project Google Birdhouse by hanging pin-shaped birdhouses around Taipei. He stated, "Google Map had created a remarkable landmark icon, showing the sites on its street views. To search for a landmark with online Google map, we can scroll to zoom from the satellite, soon we’ll be able to wander on streets, virtually. Birds, 

Question: what is a dropped pin on google maps for?
Answer: marks locations in Google Maps.
marks locations.