Google recently upgraded Google Maps with a new land parcel data layer, added a Map error reporting function, has promised map fixes to street errors in 30 days or less and has replaced Tele Atlas as their provider of roadway data. It was widely ...
PureShear, the locksmith turned Maps black hat & black hat whistle blower, is a product of this weird interaction of the laissez faire & easily accessible marketing power of Google Maps and the hyper-competitive Locksmith industry. He recognized the ...
I recently had the opportunity to interview two senior level executives from Mapquest to find out what the longtime provider of online mapping services is up to. Despite perceptions, MapQuest is actually a more popular mapping destination than Google ...
The obvious answer is that they are all local searches on popular phrases in major metro areas. A less obvious answer is that like the infamous Denver Florist search last December, they all return seemingly authoritative OneBox results on popular geo ...
Imagine going to the Post Office to check your post office box to discover that all of your mail and receipts for the past few weeks had been forwarded to an unknown party. The Post Office informed you that there was no chance of getting your receipts ...
Mike Blumenthal: What was the goal of the upgrade? What prompted the change? Carter Maslan: We wanted to address usability issues to make it simpler to get through the process and having it flow on a single screen was a big driver. Usability was the ...
Google's enhanced listings for local search results are called the "PlusBox" because clicking the plus sign opens an inline box with additional information about a business. Over the past several weeks I've written about the problem of erroneous ...
Primarily involving large hotel chains, you can see the ease with which an affiliate can replace direct links in Yahoo with an affiliate link in order to benefit from a hotel's local listing. In the example below you'll notice that a search on ...
Over the past several week I have explored some of the issues involved with categorization of businesses in Google Maps on my blog Understanding Google Maps. In Part 1, I detailed the more than year long history of small business frustration. In Part 2, ...
What does mobile computing, that on-line all the time phenom of the future look like, and how soon will we have ubiquitous mobile search? Apple Chairman Steve Jobs offered some serious clues in his keynote address here in San Francisco at MacWorld this ...
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