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Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Interview with Lior Ron, Hotpot Product Manager
Last week in This Week in Startups, Jason Calcanis had a great interview with Lior Ron (who like hotpot has his name backwards š ),the product manager for Google Hotpot. The interview is interesting, gives insight to the technology and Google’s thinking about its role going forward and its relationship to personalized search. The interview …
New Google Dashboard Analytics Gone Missing
Update : A spokesperson from Google just sent me the following; Just saw your post from today and wanted to let you know that we do have some improvements to the Places dashboard coming, but they may not make it onto Santa’s sleigh for delivery by the holidays. š Google recently pushed out anĀ upgraded Places …
The Rubicon has Been Crossed -Local Pages as Transaction Interface
Yesterday was a seminal moment in Local. It largely went unnoticed but it reflects the rapid monetization of location pages by the major search engines. Bing*Ā announced a number of local, map and mobile upgrades that improve an already good, but under rated and under used product. Clearly, they are battling toe to toe feature wise …
Google Places: Problems in Tag land- Hell hath no fury like an SMB scorned!
For the first time for the SMB, Google is providing human interaction in the form of the Tag and Boost teams. Google, to their credit, recognized the need for both outbound calling and some level of support in the SMB market place. But in an effort to cram every business and every problem into the …
Google Integrating Streetview into Map Search Results?
Yam Regev (PureSheer) sent along this new view visible in Google Maps that moves StreetView front and center in the Maps results. It is not clear if this is a test or not as I was able to see it at work but not at home :
Google Places Upgrades Dashboard Analytics – Is Google Adding a Reservation System?
Thanks to e-mphasis Internet Marketing for pointing out the increased detail that Google Places is now including in the Dashboard Analytics. Google is not only providing a breakout of desktop vs. mobile activity but is showing a great deal of additional detail in the mobile environment. Note the inclusion of “Add as Contact” and “Reservation”. …
Compendium of Banned Words in Google Places – Terms Not Allowed By The Nanny Bot
Google Places has a word filter in place that prevents the use of certain terms and phrases in a listing. It is a particularly “nasty” filter as it doesn’t allow the record to be verified and offers no way of working around the ban other than removing the “offending” word. Even hospitals get swept up …
TripAdvisor Continuing to Limit Reviews in Google Places
Over the weekend, we reported that TripAdvisor reviews, while not showing up in UK, were returning to US listings. Apparently, it is just a fluke as TNoozĀ reports that TripAdvisor is continuing their restrictions on Google using Reviews in Places. From TNooz and TA: āDespite the rumours, we are continuing to restrict TripAdvisor content on Google …
Google Mobile Instant Suggestions – Search Results Before You Search
I have only been tangentially following the development of Google Instant on Mobile. As Barry pointed out upon its release in early November, on the iPhone it is not a natural search strategy and thus I only use the Google search field on my phone occasionally. Yesterday, though, I noticed a result that made bells …
Google Category Tool Updated
We have updated the Google Places Category Tool with a “dump” of currentĀ categories and synonyms. From the last time we updated the data a year ago, Google deleted 170 categories and 1922 synonyms, leaving exactly 1900 primary categories in the list. Most of the deleted categories were plural duplicates of existing categories. I.E. “Surgeons” was …
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