Google Maps offers Instant User Created Locations

For an update and detailed slide show on this feature see: Google Maps: Everyone can create a business listing Jean-Noël Anderruthy of the GoogleXXL blog alerted me to the Google Operating System blog reporting of a new Google Maps feature that allows users to create new content to be added to Maps. I have yet …

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How many Google Coupons are there? Up 54%

In November of 2oo7, I used Google’s coupon search function to estimate the total number of coupons that Google was showing in major markets. Google introduced the coupon program in August 2006 and they announced a partnership with ValPak to help promote coupon use shortly after. Here are the numbers of coupons in NY, Chicago, …

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iPhone SDK: a tipping point for Local Search?

Apple’s announcement of their software development kit was big in the tech news arena but got scant coverage in the search world. From where I sit, it appears to be a seminal event that will define local search for the next decade and will lead to a dramatic upsurge in hyper local searches. There was …

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Local Links of Interest

Milestone Talks To Matt Cutts From Google: Best Practices For Promoting Hotels Online. – Milestone, 4Hotliers Question: We have been doing a great effort for mobile devices and I think in the past year I have been struggling with what is going to be the future? Should mobile sites be designed for iPhones or SmartPhones? …

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How to get help with your Google Maps problems

Google Maps has a tendency to be a bit “quirky”. You never know if the problem is something the business owner has done or whether you are running up against Google Map’s unusually “beta type” personality*. Besides this blog and myself there are a number of resources that you might want to review in your …

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Google Maps: Business listings disappear

Over the past several weeks I had experienced a business listing that was present in the Authoritative Onebox, present in the Local 10 Pack (Michael Donnelly Interior Design – Buffalo), but was nowhere to be found in the Maps listing even when selecting the “more” info link showing in the Authoritative OneBox or the 10 …

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Local Links of Interest

KML: HTML for the Geoweb – Christopher Schmidt, TechnicalRamblings KML has become the “HTML” of the Geographic Web. With limited semantic meaning, a combination of mostly-human understandable XML tags for the majority of the usages, widespread use and abuse for purposes far beyond the original thoughts and intentions of the designers, and more, KML fits …

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Google and the PlusBox Blues

The Google Maps for Business Group has had countless requests for help with erroneous Plus Boxes like this one: ================================================= TOPIC: “+” Sign shows Wrong Address & Phone # in Google Search Results! HELP! ================================================= Date: Mon, Mar 3 2008 12:10 pm From: rjfny Hi Jen, Here is the link to our search results page …

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