Comments on: Google Maps Interface Tweak

By: Recent interface changes to Google Maps « Local Search Optimization – Martijn Beijk

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:04 +0000

[...] Google Maps tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.martijnbeijk.com/interface-changes-google-maps/’; It has been a while since we have seen some major interface changes to Google Maps. Today I noticed some of the [...]

By: Easy Job Information

Easy Job Information — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:25:14 +0000

basicly, this is a new tool from google to implement it with our business listings. oops your pointing it to white house!

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:56:52 +0000

Wow nice update!

By: Joy Kim

Joy Kim — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:52:14 +0000

Thanks for documenting this new feature.

I just had a weird experience yesterday when Maps all the sudden switched to text view only for my browser saying that my FireFox didn’t support the regular version of Maps after I’d been using Maps just fine for a while.

So, I had to download the same version of FireFox brwoser again to make it work again.

I guess if someone is using a FireFox version that’s lower than 3, the user would only experience the text version, which emphasizes ranked listings than the location thumbnails on the area map. I doubt that there’s a good number of users who don’t update this free OS browser, but thought this is interesting enough to share with you.

Thanks, Mike!

By: SEO Joel

SEO Joel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:51:59 +0000

Awesome update, that is an interesting change. I would say this is definitely a positive update. Thanks for the info

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:52:21 +0000

@Miriam

I have the same problem. When Cathy mentioned it, I couldn’t remember when the choices were last there…I discovered that I had left a screen up in my browser from yesterday so I did the article to document the change.

Often I will wonder or someone will ask in 3 weeks what happened. By then I will have forgotten and I can go back and reference the article.

It is interesting how many little things Google is pulling out of the Maps interface.

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:53:48 +0000

Thanks for the screenshots, Mike. I bet I would have been looking around in agitation for the text view/map view links had you not written this.

Miriam