Local business listings will now be featured more prominently in regular Google searches instead of being contained within Google Maps. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as ...

Google has launched Google Instant Search for Google Place search results. To see this yourself, conduct a search on Google and then click on “Places” in the left-hand panel. Then type in the search ...

Friends or enemies? Partners or competitors? Google’s relationship with review sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp is as complicated as ever, and the disputes are likely to increase as the search giant ...

From our checks, it seems like Google has completely omitted Yelp reviews from Google Places. As you may recall, Yelp has been frustrated by Google’s recent decision to pump up its Places service with ...

Google Places officially launched globally last year as part of Google Maps. The agency behind the project Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) Tokyo said 500 stores in Shibuya signed up for the campaign which saw ...

Specifically, Google knows 50 million places, and when you search for say "museums new york," it now shows you a new kind of search result that replaces a list of links with a list of mini-pages for ...

Google just announced an update of the reviews section of Google Places, which essentially separates reviews from sites like Yelp, Zagat, Citygrid and others into separate category, called “Reviews ...

Mike Blumenthal reports Google is now requiring new Google Place Profiles for dropping reviews on Google Place listings. Mike said, If a current Google account user without a public profile attempts ...

Google Play Service’s Location APIs give you an easy way of displaying the user’s current location, but there’s only so much value you can get out of a “You Are Here”-style marker on a Google Map! The ...

Please try back in a few minutes. There is a single long thread, plus dozens of other threads about the issue in the blogged it last night. The issues started sometime yesterday and linger on through ...