For the third year in a row, David Mihm has published the Local Search Ranking Factors. The LSRF 2010 consists of 32 local search enthusiasts their opinion (including me!) on how to rank well in the search engines. It is a definite must read for everyone interested in Local Search. It is also incredible to [...]
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Historypin: building largest historical image archive
Historypin is some sort of timetravel device. You can now look up historical imagery inside a Google Maps interface using historypin. I think its cool to see how your town looked like in the old days, maybe before you were even born. See those old horse trams riding down the streets before Prius’ were dominating [...]
Google StreetView Explained (Japanese version)
Never seen this one before but I think it’s brilliant and wanted to share it with my readers!
SEO oneboxes – not only in Duluth
Following Mike’s example of Google still showing oneboxes on SEO related terms (which they banished some time ago ) I found another example where google decides to put up the onebox. Considering the Guidelines for inclusion in Google Maps you might find this example particularly funny.
Google Maps Turn-by-Turn navigation for android 2.0
Google Maps has just announced that they launched a beta verison of Turn by Turn navigation software for the Android 2.0 platform! Features highlighted are : Search in plain English Search by Voice Traffic view Search along route Satellite view Street View Car dock mode The first phone to be supporting the application will be [...]
Collecting Street View data
Saw this one over at Mike’s blog and found it funny enough to share with you people. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Must be one hell of a job!
Google Coupons near you
I just noticed that Google has a actual frontend for Google Coupons. I was used to see Coupons being displayed alongside local business listings in Google Maps and the regular SERPS and you could search for them via Google Maps. To me this appears to be new but Mike Blumenthal already reported a Coupon search [...]
Google Maps visuals added
Google has added extra visuals in the map data to show where specific points of interests and landmarks are. Libraries, museums, pharmacies, restaurants, shops and all kinds of other places are now easily recognizable by embedded visuals in map data. A negative side-effect of the feature is that a map can get a bit crowded. [...]
Paper Google Maps handed out by volunteers
The Google Maps team on twitter just notified their followers that they were handing out these: Paper Google Maps with Public Transport information on the back. It appears that this also must be an addition to the marketing campaign they are running for Google Maps as a product.
Recent interface changes to Google Maps
It has been a while since we have seen some major interface changes to Google Maps. Today I noticed some of the following changes and wondered for how long they have already been there. update: i was a bit behind on my reader and noticed Matt posted about this on SEL as well I did some [...]
About Martijn
I'm Martijn Beijk, Digital Analytix Consultant with comScore. In my sparetime I specialize in Local Search.
My enthusiasm lays in Local & Mobile, including location-based services, context-awareness, semantic web and things as such.
Want to get in touch or hire me? contact me by mail or at Twitter: @martijnbeijk
