Comments on: Google Maps experimenting with Local OneBox

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Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:58:09 +0000

[...] speculated in my last post that it was taking up something less than 1/3 more room. It actually is only occupying 10% more [...]

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:51:06 +0000

Hi Paul

Thanks for looking. I guess time will tell.

On the reviews issue it is also of interest that when there were no reviews it provides a “more” button instead. There is no address and the pin is also smaller.

Mike

By: Paul Jahn

Paul Jahn — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:30:27 +0000

Good question. Looking at Greg’s Screenwerk comparison, it looks like the font is the same. There just aren’t any spaces between the listings. The font didn’t change when narrowing the screen.

I wish I could compare the two, but only the “ten” results are shown still in tundra-land.

I really like your “review over directions” reference – something that didn’t dawn on me at all.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:28:00 +0000

Hi Paul

So you are saying it is almost a third less again…how did it compare to the Map Image Size when viewed full width? Was the font smaller?

Mike

By: Paul Jahn

Paul Jahn — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:52:17 +0000

Hey, thanks for the mention Mike and great post!

The space allocated is probably even less. To meet image specs at SEG, I narrowed the window to under half the screen width before I took a screenshot. In a full size window, A-J is almost always just a single line.