If you haven’t begun to target local search and maps for your SEO efforts, now is the time to start. Google Indexing is about more than just plain search results now – there are so many opportunities with local search! This is being outlined neatly my Microsoft, which is being very innovative at the moment [...]
Microsoft to Allow 3rd Party Apps into Silverlight Bing Maps
June 6th, 2010Google ‘Near Me Now’ a Competitor for Yelp?
January 10th, 2010Google may have failed to buy Yelp, but they’ve launched their own app that may well give Yelp some competition. According to the Google Mobile blog, “Near me now” was designed to address two user problems. First, we wanted to make it fast and easy to find out more about a place in your immediate [...]
Move Over, GPS!
October 29th, 2009Google has taken the leap of connecting Android and Google Maps to come up with a great directions tool. Google demonstrated their new vision for Mobile Maps for the press on Oct 27th at the Google office in Mountain View. The demo, which revealed a new navigational dimension to Mobile Maps, was performed with Verizon’s [...]
Google Street View on Results
August 31st, 2009Google has combined its local business listings with Street View inside of Google Maps. I used this the other day to show hubby exactly what landmarks to look for when searching for a biz in another state. How cool is that! Now when you go looking for businesses in Google Maps, a new Street View [...]
YouTube Adding Geographic Capability
July 13th, 2008I don’t quite get the relevance of being able to geographically pinpoint videos on YouTube. I mean, I guess if Google wants to be able to hand over that info too… Or is it a good way to personally hook up with friends, meet new people, and stalk celebs? I guess there could be some [...]













