{"id":3353,"date":"2009-05-22T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T02:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2009-05-23T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T23:00:17","slug":"google-maps-offers-a-new-feature-easy-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/google-maps-offers-a-new-feature-easy-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps offers a New Feature: Easy Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update 5\/23<\/strong>: The Easy Stars are now visible in List view as well as Maps view<\/p>\n<p>There is a new interface feature in Google Maps that allows a user to quickly favor a business listing. A user must be logged in and viewing the listings in the Maps view mode where an outlined star will be visible immediately after the business name. <\/p>\n<p>Upon selecting the star it turns yellow and a the starred listing appears in the user&#8217;s MyMaps view (thanks to Stever of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axemedia.com\">AxeMedia<\/a> for the clue). The yellow star also appears on the listing in  the main Map viewing area.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/google-maps-offers-a-new-feature-easy-stars\/stealth-feature\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/stealth-feature.jpg\" alt=\"stealth-feature\" title=\"stealth-feature\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/stealth-feature.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/stealth-feature-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/stealth-feature-450x226.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/google-maps-offers-a-new-feature-easy-stars\/mymapview\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mymapview.jpg\" alt=\"mymapview\" title=\"mymapview\" width=\"319\" height=\"376\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>The feature allows a quick and easy way to create a MyMap list of favorite businesses or places in Maps for whatever purpose. Or as Miriam Ellis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchengineguide.com\/miriam-ellis\/two-bits-of-local-search-news.php\">points out<\/a> it could also be used to create a list of worsts.<\/p>\n<p>At this point the MyMap is only visible to the logged in user that added the stars but it would be nice if this MyMap&#8217;s starred list could used to quickly create sharable public &#038; embedable MyMap. <\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the stars impact ranking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 5\/23: The Easy Stars are now visible in List view as well as Maps view There is a new interface feature in Google Maps that allows a user to quickly favor a business listing. A user must be logged in and viewing the listings in the Maps view mode where an outlined star will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}