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Google Updated Maps For Mobile For Android

Written on March 18, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Object, book

Google has pushed out a maps app update for Android based mobile devices. The new Google Maps Mobile app, version 4.1 for Android has updated the interface and made some feature changes to help improve usability.
The changes include:

Revised search results page so everything is accessible on a single page.
You can now swipe [...]



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Five Keys For Creating Viral YouTube Titles

Written on March 18, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Object, book, seo

As with text web pages, from an SEO standpoint the title of your YouTube video is the most important piece of content on the page. Well, to be fair, the most important piece of content is actually the video itself, but for the purpose of this discussion, let’s assume that the video is at least [...]



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Google Goes Live With “In-Stock, Nearby” Mobile Shopping

Written on March 11, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Object, book

In the range of thigs discussed at Google’s Search Evolution event in December Engineering VP Vic Gundotra demonstrated mobile shopping with real-time inventory information.  Now Google has announced that product is live.
Google is working with a limited number of retailers for the time being but is inviting others to apply to become part of the [...]



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Google Offers Beta Features In New “Maps Labs”

Written on February 12, 2010 by admin

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Microsoft introduced some impressive new features and imagery in Bing Maps at the TED conference yesterday. With its new Silverlight version Bing has advanced online maps to a kind of “next level” (albeit one right now for power users perhaps) that jumps ahead of Google in terms of innovation (i.e., deep zoom, Photosynth integration, video [...]



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Cambodia Calls Google Maps “Misleading” Over Thailand Border Dispute

Written on February 8, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Object

Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border from Reuters reports Cambodia is the latest country upset with Google over how they draw the border on Google Maps. Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, wrote a letter saying Google was “radically misleading,” “professionally irresponsible” and “devoid of truth and reality.”
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Google Recommends The Competition On Your Place Page

Written on February 5, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Advertising, Object

I’m scratching my head over this one: Google has added a new content block on place pages that, quite often, gives free advertising to a local business’s competition. It’s called “Nearby places you might like” and it appears below reviews on the place page; the content block will show up to ten recommended businesses — [...]



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Google Earth Adds World War II Imagery

Written on February 5, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Object

The Google LatLong Blog announced the addition of World War II imagery to Google Earth. Now you can compare, side by side, the earth as it is today versus how it was during World War II.
Google said:
Images taken in 1943 show the effect of wartime bombing on more than 35 European towns and cities. [...]



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Google Maps To Add “Google Store Views”

Written on February 4, 2010 by admin

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I received a tip from a New York retailer named Oh Nuts, that Google came to their store to take pictures for a new Google Maps product named “Google Store Views.” I was told that they took pictures of the inside of the store, every 6 feet, in all directions. They also took [...]



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Google New Local Ad Category Invades The “7 Pack”

Written on February 1, 2010 by admin

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It doesn’t in any way affect a local business ranking in the so-called “7 pack” or on the subsequent Google Maps page. However Google is introducing a new local business ad (”enhanced listings“) that allows a business to stand out with an “enhanced” presence on the map or in the map-related listings on the SERP. [...]



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Google Maps’ Search Suggestions Get Personal

Written on January 27, 2010 by admin

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Google has announced that it’s now personalizing search suggestions that appear on Google Maps. It’s an odd announcement to me, because I’m almost sure my maps search suggestions have been personalized for some time now. One thing that I haven’t seen before, though, is the explicit notice beneath the suggestions that things have been personalized.

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