Google has introduced a new search feature that should make local searches a lot more interesting. Dubbed Google Place Search, the name says it all, it enables users to find places rather than websites. This may not seem like much of a change, but it completely turns on its head the search results paradigm used so fa... |
28 October 2010
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Google is giving Place Pages reviews a little revamp and is also bringing back Yelp reviews. Third-party reviews are now better separated from Google users' reviews and are also branded to make them easier to spot."Today, we’re announcing a new design for how reviews are displayed on Place pages. Now, when... |
16 October 2010
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Google Street View is an interesting tool and a very useful one on some occasions. But, for the most part, the majority of people just use it to browse through familiar places or far-away cities. A latest addition to the product brings a bit more practicality to Street View. Local businesses are now marked in Street ... |
28 April 2010
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The ‘local’ web promises to be the next big frontier for anything having to do with search, advertising and all manner of other services. Google obviously wants to own the ‘local’ space as well and has been making several big moves in this area. The most recent is the new Google Places, or rat... |
20 April 2010
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Organizing the world's information, Google's long-time company mantra, can be an arduous task and sometimes even the most advanced computer systems aren't enough. This is when Google falls back to the oldest computing resource known, actual people. The company recently started creating dedicated pages ... |
9 March 2010
07:11 GMT |
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Google launched Place Pages for Google Maps just a few moths ago, but it's already becoming a pretty interesting product. The company plans to create a page for every 'place' on Earth and the tool certainly has a lot of potential. Google has definitely invested in it and has been adding new features a... |
6 February 2010
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