Mike Blumenthal

When you do a search for google.com in NYC or Chicago you predictably get results for…Google. But the search for Google.com in some cities returns very strange results. The result that I found particularly strange was the result when searching for Google.com Olean NY: —- One of the interesting tidbits that I discovered…..

Many, many professional practices and clinics have multiple practitioners. Google Maps is all about the Place. In the past, Google has made it quite clear that there should be one listing for each business. However, Google when assembling data about these professionals, often gathers both place and practitioner detail to create Places pages. Thus often …

Google Maps has never been great at providing meaningful feedback in the Google Places management area (aka LBC) to businesses that encountered errors in entering their record or when being given a penalty. For a while this trend was improving as the messages were getting more specific and meaningful and at one point last fall, …

The Google Jazz upgrade is now rolling out and is available in most locations (although not all as I have it at home but not work). SInce its early testing, the interface has evolved through a number of changes as it relates to local, some of which pushed organic results further down the page than others. …

GetList.org Local University in Minneapolis is coming up on May 13th at the Westin Edina Galleria and there will be an AM and one PM session. As always the Twin Cities event will be focused on providing the small business person with an overview of marketing their business on the web. The regular cost is …

Google Maps has been updating a number of features of late, some small and some not so small. Here is a detail of the upgrade that was pointed out to me by Alice, one of PureSheer’s staff, where Google is now including a great deal of interesting history of community edits. If you edit a …

Yesterday, Nielson reported the March 2010 U.S. search rankings. It included the normal stuff…Google has a 65.7 market share, Yahoo’s down, Bing is up…. Of more interest to me was the reported fact that there were 6,387,932,000 (6.4 billion) searches on Google in March. Last week, Google noted in their Google Places rebranding of the …

Today on the Lat-Long Blog, Google has announced that they are now using their own underlying geo data instead of TeleAtlas data. The move mirrors the move made in the US when Google replaced TeleAtlas data in October 2009. Here is their announcement: The map of Canada is constantly changing – new roads are being …

Google continues to roll out new features to Google Maps, having added 3D Google Earth view to Google Maps. View Larger Map In June, 2009, I noted in speaking on the Google Earth like future of Google Maps: It portends a day in the not too distant future when the browser by default, handles the …