Archive for "google maps"

Ever since Apple replaced Google Maps in its iOS devices for their own Apple Maps across iPhone’s and iPad’s there has been quite a backlash from consumer. Sadly, the Apple maps were far from perfect. From offering wrong labeling of locations, restaurants, guiding people through wrong turns to leading a group of Aussies all the way to a desert infested with snakes, Apple has had …

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Google Maps has had a live traffic feature available since back in 2008; however it was only available for a limited number of large metropolitan areas.  Things are about to change though, as Google has just added another 130 cities to the list and is now offering live traffic for a much larger number of locations.

The new list includes small towns in the US …

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Google’s new map tool is a blessing for bosses and a curse for wayward employees. It combines the features of Google Maps and Google Latitude. The new service, called Google Coordinate, allows a boss to keep track of their employees in real time.

Coordinate allows a company to keep track of everyone they have in the field. It allows a boss to set up …

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There is some good news for businesses who find Google AdWords a little too daunting, Google has launched AdWords Express, an extended version of Google Boost.

Google Boost was launched late 2010, but this time Google has kept the product simple so as to attract the less technically savvy small businesses and give them an opportunity to become part of the coveted AdWords family.

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It has been reported that Google is asking businesses with unclaimed listing on Google Maps if they are still operating. However, they’re not fussy about who confirms the information – it could even be just a Google Maps user.

A simple overlay on the respective place page shows three options: Yes, No or Don’t Know. If you enter an answer, a note above the map …

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Reports are flooding in from around the world claiming that many business owners are not being able to respond to the negative reviews on their Google Maps listing.

Google had begun allowing business owners to reply to reviews written by customers on their Google Place pages since in August 2010 and things were going fine until recently when many business owners are complaining that they …

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We thought it wouldn’t take long and Google certainly didn’t disappoint.

Less than two months after its release, Google has started pushing reviews and ratings from Hotpot into Google Maps.

Google’s aim for this is to make the Google Maps results more personalized for users by providing more personal, relevant and trustworthy reviews and to stay up to date with the latest places recommended …

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Google is at war… with New York based local advertising firm, Yext.

Yext specializes in pay-per-call advertising for New York based businesses and have launched a tag feature that will mimic Google Tags.

Tags are small colored graphic advertisements that stand out in web directories and search result pages and are widely used by businesses to mark their presence over the internet. Tags can be …

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Although the 2011 year has only just kicked off, Google is already making headlines.

There are reports that Google holds bias in its Google Maps against business not showing a proper address in their listing and have even removed some businesses listings.

Local businesses like building contractors, painters and electricians who prefer not to show an exact address (because they generally work out of a …

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Google have announced a new advertising service for small business: Google Boost (not to be confused with our G-Boost service).

Designed specifically for local and small business, the automated service determines what keywords your business should be bidding on and recommends monthly advertising budgets based on the competitiveness of your industry.

Think it sounds a lot like AdWords? Well it is, except that ads will …

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