Posts Tagged ‘Pages

Google has introduced some new features for its recently launched Place Pages for local businesses. Most notably, businesses can now instantly (close anyway) post data to their Place Pages from Google’s Local Business Center dashboard. If you log in, you can post updates, coupons, announcements, etc. that will go live in minutes. It isn’t hard [...]

Google’s on a mission to make its Place Pages valuable hubs of location information. Today the company added verification for local businesses who claim their pages and a post to your Place Page feature. It’s a yet another maneuver in Google’s continuing strategy to dethrone Yelp as the de facto resource for local venue information [...]

Though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that public is the new “social norm,” many members who use the social network for professional and business reasons have lost the ability to conduct certain actions privately as a result of changes made to the settings. And despite this being a reflection and a catalyst of our social [...]

Chrome only: Google’s Similar Pages for Chrome extension adds a button to the toolbar that uses Google’s search algorithms to find other web sites similar to the one you are currently browsing. Once you’ve installed the extension, you can simply click the new button in the toolbar to see a list of related pages, complete [...]

Google brought a rich database of information to Google Maps in September with Place Pages, and now those detailed results on businesses and points of interest are available within Google Earth as well. To access the Place Page for a particular location, just click the “View more information” link at the bottom of the summary [...]


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