I haven’t seen this till right now - maybe just because it didn’t work on my windows laptop, but there seem to be 3D shapes for bu...

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After Germany, home of the car manufacturer BMW, the incar local search service of Google Maps now covers Italia and UK as well.  The coope...

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So I heard back from The Google Trademark Enforcement Team. Here is what they replied to me.   Dear Frank, Thank you for your reply and for ...

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Now this is one hell of a great feature, that Google Maps launched yesterday. The YouTube-style Embeddable Maps. View Larger Map I do very well remember when I first implemented maps on a ...

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So meanwhile I tried to go the official way and ask for approval to use the Google logo on my little page on Local Search.And I was quite su...

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So most of you will have probably already read about this at Philipp’s blog but for the two people reading my blog but not blogoscoped here is ...

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Take away maps from Google Maps and you will get Google Local Search – sort of.The Indian business data core listings are provided by INFOM...

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Just read this article in a German marketing magazine /in the printed version/ about Google employees in Hamburg Germany trying quite a new way...

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Being quite busy lately I’ve somehow missed some changes on the Google Maps website’s interface. They have rolled out the “text-view” which gives them way more ...

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A little Extra Help Can Go A Long Way… Stumbled on this video advertising for Google Maps UK. The Lost Tavern Ad for Google Maps The Lost Tavern Ad for Google Map...

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