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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...