Woah, enjoy the views of streetview now in Full screen mode! by pressing the new button in the right hand corner. Quite stunning if you ask me! Try it in Barcelona, close where I used to live, you will see the bullfighting arena ‘Monumental’ and in the same picture also another Street View car. Try [...]
New Help Resource for Local Business Center
Just before the weekend Google decided to launch a new help center. This time it is one that is well appreciated by small business owners and us local search people. Its a Help resource on how to set up the Local Business Center. You can find the all new help resource at the following link: [...]
Google Maps takes the lead
Seems its official now, Google Maps has taken over the lead from mapquest and is now the number one most used mapping product. This, according to figures of both comscore, compete and as of this weekend, also Hitwise. (via: Mike Blumenthal)
Some fun for the Easter weekend
Here is something from the Google Latitude team to keep us busy for the easter weekend (or whenever). It is meant to encourage people to use Latitude and discover all the fun fun fun! You can find my personalized easter message here
Google Analytics Individual Qualification
As part of catching up with writing I wanted to mention something that Google has launched since beginning of march. GA-IQ is a test, for people who use Google Analytics. You can take an individual test to set a score and receive a certificate from Google when qualified. The test is mainly focused on implementation, [...]
Street View now available in UK and Netherlands
Street View UK and NL have been added to Google Maps – for me a great opportunity to get back into the writing saddle. Major cities have now been added to Google Maps Street View for both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Grotere kaart weergeven Cities that have been added include London, Liverpool, Birmingham, [...]
How to track Universal Search traffic with Google Analytics
How to track Universal Search traffic with Google Analytics Originally posted on January 16th 2009 on the Searchcowboys website but has moved here since May 2010. After reading the post by Heini van Bergen on setting up filters on Google Analytics something caught my attention. Something I was looking for, since I started researching Local Search Optimisation. [...]
Google Maps gets a new layer – Transit
Google Maps just was upgraded with a new Layer feature, called Transit. It comes directly from the Google Transit product. Transit information was already available in some countries, but it wasn’t available from directly from the interface. The Google LatLong blog reported this just a few minutes ago. Go along and use it and be [...]
Blogger now supports Geotagging
Blogger now supports Geotagging. Wanted to share this one as it is an approach to make everything more local and apply some metadata to information on the web, trying to structure it. One of the important things of the semantic web; structured information. They even made it easy for you; enter your location or browse [...]
Yelp coming to UK, rest of Europe next?
Yelp, one of the biggest review sites in US is coming to the UK. Hopefully rest of Europe will be next, but will they be able to gain ground? Qype, touchlocal and some other more local oriented players already have quite a strong user base so will Yelp be able to set foot into this [...]
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
