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Google Maps Interface Revamped for Street View

The Google Maps interface was revamped, again, to get a better user experience, especially by putting more attention to Google Street View and to increase maps usage in general. This was just announced on the Google LatLong blog When you drag the pegman (the little yellow mascotte) from the zoom bar to the map you [...]

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Google Local Business Center awaiting updates

Google Local Business Center awaiting updates

Mike was fast with his catch on the LBC awaiting an update! I wonder if it has something to do with his previous post that has drawn some attention. Anyway, here’s the screenshot! Update: as Maps Guide Brian posted in the Google Groups the Local Business Center will also undergo some maintenance the 6th of [...]

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The Real Reason for more AdSense underneath the Maps

The Real Reason for more AdSense underneath the Maps

More Google AdSense appearing in Google Maps – I’m seeing all kinds of posts popup about this ‘new’ Ads you can see underneath Google Maps. People at Techcrunch are even giving it a weird financial twist. Almost two weeks ago I asked Mike Blumenthal about these ads I started noticing and they might have been [...]

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What should Google do?

What should Google do to make their Google Maps product more successful? First off all, in the ‘link’ feature, to send people links of google maps, they should provide you with some sort of tinyURL that is descriptive. Everywhere you see Google asking you to be clear as possible, using good structured URL formats, etc, [...]

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Less is…more Maps

Less is more, that’s what Google wrote on their LatLong blog. They decided to clean the Google Maps interface a bit, which was by now cluttered with all kinds of information which made some of the users dazzle. Again, Let’s do something for the user-experience. let’s make it more easy! Bigger Map viewing area for [...]

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