Tag: Google Places

Google Addresses Google Maps “Closed” Spam
While the concept of local search is still growing, and its potential has yet to be fully realized, the smartphone industry has allowed local, map-based search queries to be much m...
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Google Places Now Imports Your Foursquare Data
Late yesterday evening, the Google Places blog announced an update to their location-based service that aims to give you "better access to your content." The first tweak is the...
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Google Tags Are No More
After about a year of testing, Google has decided to get rid of its...
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Google Folds Hotpot Into Places
Five months ago, Google launched a local recommendation product called Hotpot and explained that Google Places was one of three main ingredients (along with "the places you like" a...
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Google Latitude App Updated
Over at the Mobile Blog, Google announced updates to two different iPhone apps, Goog...
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Search Google For Just Businesses That Are Currently Open
Google has launched a feature for its iPhone and Android mobile search that lets you see results for only local businesses that are actually open at the time of the search. Whil...
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Google Places with Hotpot App Released for iPhone
Google has launched Google Places with Hotpot for the iPhone. Given the iPhone's...
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Google Brings New Level of Relevancy to Local
Google has combined local search with personalized search, and social search to make a potentially powerful new kind of Google result that should benefit both users and business...
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Google Intros Place Search to Deliver Local Results More Efficiently
Google announced a new kind of search result called Place Search today. These results can be accessed from the new "Places" option in the left panel on Google search r...
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Google Places Moves Forward With Pics Of Firms’ Interiors
Early this year, a rumor circulated that Google was exploring a concept called Google Store Views - basically a version of Street View that would photograph the interiors of bus...
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Facebook Places, the Competition (Including Google) & Your Business
A great deal of attention has been put on what Facebook Places means fo...
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Yelp Wins: Less Search Visibility
It looks like Yelp may have gotten its wish - for Google not to use its data for Place Pages. It is still unclear to me...
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Google Makes Reputation Management Easier for Local Businesses
Google is now letting businesses respond to reviews posted on their Place Pages in Google Maps. This should be huge for reputation management, particularly as Google continues t...
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Booyah Taps Google Maps API, Places to Take MyTown International
Booyah announced today that it is taking MyTown international.  The company has launched support for...
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