{"id":447,"date":"2008-02-07T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/google-experimental-interface-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T16:50:32","slug":"google-experimental-interface-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/google-experimental-interface-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Experimental Interface Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am of the opinion that Google Maps in all of its forms is the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/google-experimental-map-view-a-look-into-the-future-of-local-search\/\">future look and feel<\/a> of search for Google, particularly in the mobile world. There has been a number of subtle and not so subtle changes that have increased Maps integration into general search as well over the past month:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/google-maps-local-onebox-reporting-across-the-web\/\">introduction<\/a> of the Local 10-Pack into the main search results<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/google-maps-indexing-and-mapping-georss-kml-files\/\">integration<\/a> of geotargeted data into Google Maps<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080131-083739.php\">increased visibility<\/a> of that data with a &#8220;Show Search Options&#8221; Maps interface upgrade<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/google-experimental-map-view-a-look-into-the-future-of-local-search\/\">recent upgrade<\/a> to Google Experimental that added map view.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a subtle but important change to the Google Experimental view within the past few days that further integrates a maps view into the main search results in a way that could conceivably be rolled out to the wider Google audience:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/before_after1.jpg\" title=\"before_after1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/before_after1.jpg\" alt=\"before_after1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I personally prefer the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/experimental\/\">Google Experimental<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 view as I use the Map view regularly and the timeline view enough that it is worthwhile to have it available. This recent interface change is more consistent with Google&#8217;s design ethos and thus seems destined to become more widely available.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/expinterfacechange.jpg\" alt=\"expinterfacechange.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am of the opinion that Google Maps in all of its forms is the future look and feel of search for Google, particularly in the mobile world. There has been a number of subtle and not so subtle changes that have increased Maps integration into general search as well over the past month: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 &#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-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}