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 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 the motorola droid. More info in the video!
via: mashable
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!
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 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. Big [...]
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.
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 [...]
The Google team just announced that MyLocation, the feature we all know from the iphone Google Maps application will be available from our desktop if you run a supported browser. A blue dot will automatically appear when Google Maps is able to determine your location.
Supported browsers currently are:
Google Chrome 2.0+ (using Gears),
Mozilla [...]
Google Japan decided to take a different strategic approach to Street View to not violate privacy regulations. Instead of the regular Street View car they are now using a bicycle, with a slightly different set up.
the new setup includes:
the bicycle (trike) with the camera almost half a meter lower than the normal ’street car setup’.
a telephone [...]
According to Belgium newspaper ‘De Standaard‘ Google will soon file a declaration to the Belgium Privacy Commission to continue their Street View project in Belgium. Google thought at first it would not be necessary to file a declaration because of existing certificates that made their datasharing between EU and US possible.
A statement from the privacy [...]
