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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Google Buys ImageAmerica, Mapping Feature War Continues |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 10:13 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| Friday, the Google LatLong Blog announced the company had acquired ImageAmerica, "a company that builds high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery." Google plans to use the capabilities in Google Maps and Earth. ImageAmerica provided some of the high-resolution post-Hurricane Katrina images (no longer available) in Google |
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| NY Times Covers Mashups |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:07 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| of data on a map, whether local businesses, user photographs or other information. It also discusses how mapping APIs from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have unleashed third-party developer creativity and that of ordinary people (in My Maps and Live Local Collections). Google's recent Earth for Enterprise enhancements are also about |
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| Google Maps Bulk Upload Spam? |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 9:44 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| Case of Large Scale Abuse at Google Maps? from Mike Blumenthal reports cases of companies using Google Map's business location bulk upload feature to potentially spam the local vertical. I am not going to list out the reported violations here, because Mike Blumenthal did so in his blog post and in this Google Groups thread. Mike reported that |
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| Microsoft vs. Google: Street Photography Rigs Compared |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 10:57 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| the cars and cameras Google is using to capture its StreeView imagery with those being used by Microsoft for what has been known as StreetSide. StreetSide is a Live Local product that predated Google's StreetView but has been limited to San Francisco and Seattle. What this post suggests, although I've yet to confirm this with anyone |
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| Google Maps Now Estimates Drive Time At Rush Hour |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 8:53 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| to the Google Lat Long Blog, the search engine has added a feature to Maps that provides a realistic estimate of drive time in traffic at peak times or when there's an accident. There's an optimal drive time and an outer range (e.g., "up to 1 hour and 50 minutes in traffic"). It's not clear how many people take those idealized travel |
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| Bulk Upload 'Mapspam' On Google |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 5:11 pm |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| TechPro's CEO speaks about Google Maps Bulk Upload abuse and the related Batten down the hatches: More Google Mapspam on the way to a Local Map near you? The issue involves two companies (or their SEO firms) using the bulk upload process to create what amount to false local listings that appear in Google Maps and in Google OneBox/Universal |
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| Google Takes A Step Toward A Local Sales Force |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 7:47 pm |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| spotted via gSpy, Google is soliciting "local business referral representatives" to gather metadata and take pictures at local businesses around the country. They will be paid and must apply. Indeed, Google appears to be targeting college students rather than serious sales people with the program. Click to continue reading... |
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| Google Maps, Privacy And 'The Eye In The Sky' |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 10:13 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| The L.A. Times writes about the issue of privacy and Google's StreetView photography. It covers much of the same territory as when the service initially launched (here's our original article). But the service has become one of the focal points in the discussion of the Internet and privacy. Click to continue reading... |
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| Embed Google Maps Feature Coming Soon |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 10:15 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| Herald reports that Google Maps will be adding a YouTube like embed maps feature, as early as next week. Carl Sjogreen, Google Australia's senior product manager, announced this feature in Sydney today. The feature will be rolled out worldwide in about a week's time, said Carl Sjogreen. Click to continue reading... |
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| Google Maps Adds Embed Map Feature |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 1:37 pm |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| expected, Google Lat Long Blog has announced that you can now embed your Google Maps, easily, into your web pages. Just go to the map you like, click on "link to this page" at the top right corner of the map and select the code within the "Paste HTML to embed in website" box. Here is an example of a Google Map embedded into this page, of |
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| What Should Google Do About Mapspam? |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 8:26 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| The first widely reported Google Mapspam clearly highlighted the potential and pitfalls for local search. Mapspam is a relatively new phenomemon, where black hat SEOs are spamming local search and map listings. It also raised a number of questions for Google, and for the search marketing industry: Click to continue reading... |
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| Google Adds Distance Measurement to My Maps |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 11:52 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| The Google Lat Long Blog reports that users drawing trail or hiking maps with its My Maps line tool will now get automatic distance measurement between points when they create personalized maps. This is a small but useful enhancement, and one of many recent incremental improvements that Google has added to Maps. |
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| Google Street View Might Violate Canadian Privacy Law |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 10:33 am |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| concerns preemptively that Google's Street View photography could violate the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of 2004. This article is part of Local Search Week here at Search Engine Land, a special look at local search marketing issues in the run-up to our SMX Local & Mobile conference next month. |
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| The New Google Moon |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 6:50 pm |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| Google Moon went live back in July 2005 with relatively low resolution images of our closest neighbor. In conjunction with today's news about Google backing private moon landings through the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a new version of Google Moon has been released. Click to continue reading... |
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| Google Maps Further Expands Coverage |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 3:31 pm |
| Tags: Google Maps Amp Local |
| announced expanded Maps coverage of Latin American and Asian countries on its LatLong blog. Recently added countries include: Afghanistan, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, |
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