Sep 03, 2010 - Google Brings ?Search-to-Store? to the Mobile Web
Google Maps for Mobile has a new feature that could help you get exactly where you want to be. Earlier this summer they introduced Expendable Map Ads that appeared in both applications and mobile web. This app provided a banner from paid advertisers that ...
Sep 03, 2010 - Location extensions with multiple addresses available on mobile devices
Cross-posted from the Google Mobile Ads BlogDo you have several business locations in one city? For example, are you a national retailer of consumer electronics who wants to increase foot traffic to your Los Angeles area stores?Every day, consumers are us...
Sep 02, 2010 - Testing of Google Maps? ?Sponsored Icons? Comes to the U.S.
Google is in the beta testing stages of what they are calling “sponsored map icons” which will appear on Google Maps. These icons will show specific brand icons on the maps instead of just the generic ones and as of right now this new feature ...
Sep 01, 2010 - SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 1, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google Maps “Sponsored Map Icons” Test Comes To U.S.
Google Maps is now testing “sponsored map icon...
Sep 01, 2010 - Google Maps ?Sponsored Map Icons? Test Comes To U.S.
Google Maps is now testing “sponsored map icons” in the United States. This was first tested back in March in the Australian version of Google Maps. The sponsored map icons are basically company logo enhanced points of interest icons.
For ...
Aug 31, 2010 - Online publishers: growing the display advertising pie
This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue - Ed.For millions of online publishers—fr...
Aug 30, 2010 - Microsoft Adds Food Cart Finding Layer to Bing Maps
Apparently food carts are a very big deal in Portland, Oregon. So big in fact that Microsoft has developed a new mapping layer that allows searchers to locate these carts in the Bing Maps service. This new layer is joining the ranks of other food cart fin...
Aug 30, 2010 - Arcade Fire meets HTML5
What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question we've been playing around with for the last few months. Browsers and web technologies have advanced so rapidly in the last few years that powerful experie...
Aug 27, 2010 - This week in search 8/27/10
This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.Searches come in many flavors, but it's our job to determine what type of search you're doing once you've click...
Aug 26, 2010 - Using Citations To Optimize Google Maps Ranking
One of the most important factors in one’s ranking on Google is your volume of citations (i.e. mentions of your business name and address, not just links to your site.) The challenge lies not in obtaining hundreds of citations from any site, but by gett...
Aug 26, 2010 - Google Maps Updates Review Policy & Drops Yelp Reviews
The Google Maps Blog announced they have updated the maps review policy on how to write reviews and what reviews Google has the right to remove. In addition, TechCrunch reports that Google has dropped Yelp’s syndicated reviews from Google Maps.
Th...
Aug 26, 2010 - The 4 Hardest Things About Conversion Optimization For Local Search
As I was perusing through some updates on twitter the other day I came across an Alan Bleiweiss article entitled CONVERSION OPTIMIZATION IS THE NEW BLACK. Â Now, not only did the article have an extremely catchy and trend-a-rific title, but Alan reall...
Aug 24, 2010 - Weekly Search & Social News: 08/24/2010
Weekly Search & Social News: 08/24/2010
Hello and welcome to the latest -’7 Days of Search and Social‘ . It was a fairly busy week out in the trenches with plenty to get into… other than new patents. Ok, sure, you prolly don’t ...
Aug 24, 2010 - Hunch?s Recommendation Engine Goes Local
Hunch has launched what its co-founder, Chris Dixon, calls an alpha version of a new local recommendation engine. You can access it at hunch.com/local.
It’s not to be confused with Hunch’s existing Local category on the main Hunch.com site, an...
Aug 19, 2010 - German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View
Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordin...