{"id":740,"date":"2008-07-29T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2008-07-29T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:08:10","slug":"google-maps-new-user-content-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/google-maps-new-user-content-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: New User Content Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been engaged in research on local, prepping my talk for SMXLocal &amp; traveling, I haven&#8217;t paid that much attention to the bowels of Google Maps of late, so this could have been present for quite a while. But Google has added a new tab to the More Info display for a business record in Maps:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/user_content2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-742\" title=\"user_content2\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/user_content2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/user_content2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/user_content2-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This content is taken from maps that I created\u00c2\u00a0 for this client in MyMaps. 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