Google is about to transition local business ads in advertisers' AdWords accounts to ads that are compatible with the location extensions the company introduced last year....
Apparently Facebook is not content with only taking over the web, but wants to get some penetration into the physical world as well. Taking a cue from another dominant company,...
Last week Google changed the Local Business Center to Google Places, and along with that change came some new features for local businesses. We looked at those...
Google recently launched Suggest for Google Maps in several countries, and has now expanded the availability of the feature to ten more domains. The feature has also gotten some...
Google introduced a new version of Google Maps for BlackBerry devices today. There are quite a few significant features that come along with it.
Search by Voice,...
In local search news, AT&T Interactive has rebranding its popular YellowPages.com to YP.com. AT&T's Jamie Carracher tells WebProNews, "YP.com will replace YellowPag...
I don't think too many people will dispute the fact that location is buzz topic of 2010 so far within the online marketing industry. Big players in this space include Foursquare...
As we've written about a lot lately, local search is continuing to evolve, and that evolution is not just coming from the biggest names in search. We recently had a discussion w...
As the web quickly becomes more mobile and social than ever, we see apps filling voids that were mostly left empty throughout the history of search and social media. People are...