Mike Blumenthal

Google continues to make upgrades to Places and Maps having recently announced a wider rollout of Google Business Photos. As noted last week there have been a number of changes/additions to Places pages themselves. Adam Dorfman of SimPartners pointed out this additional visual upgrade to the Hotel booking feature. The new emphasis makes the feature …

This interview appeared yesterday in TechCrunch and is worth a watch. Takeaways? * Mayer while not the top dog in Local, she is becoming its public face * Google will be focusing all new local product developments in the context of their two core products, Maps and Places * Latitude is just a social view …