Mike Blumenthal

What’s New in Reviews at Google Maps: With their newly implemented sentiment analysis, Google Maps is apparently now reaching across hyperlocal blogs, local portals and news sites and retrieving blog entries, general editorial reporting and even blog comments for inclusion as reviews on their Places Pages. This change portends a dramatically changed review landscape where …

Google Maps has been active both on-line and off promoting the Local Business Center. I noted last week that Google was increasing their trade show presence as well. This weekend while visiting Sebastien Provencher’s blog I happen to notice this Google Display Ad showing on his site: **** It would be interesting to know the …