Google has decided to change the name of what was called the “Google Local Business Center” to “Google Places.” The rationale, according to the press release, is to better connect Google Place Pages ...

Friends or enemies? Partners or competitors? Google’s relationship with review sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp is as complicated as ever, and the disputes are likely to increase as the search giant ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Google has renamed its Local Business Center to Google Places and added ...

Google is introducing a mobile marketing campaign for Place Pages, a service for businesses that faced some early criticism when it launched in September. Place Pages are Web sites that Google creates ...

The Google local pack within the Google Search results changes, I think. When you click on the "More businesses" button at ...

Google Play Service’s Location APIs give you an easy way of displaying the user’s current location, but there’s only so much value you can get out of a “You Are Here”-style marker on a Google Map! The ...

Google Maps has a new trick up its sleeve -- a web page for every place on Earth. The new "Place Pages," as Google is calling them, are individual web pages designed to give you all the information ...

Google help document sleuth, Menashe Avramov, posted on Google+ that he spotted a new link in the Google Rich Snippets documentation for "Place Actions." The new link for "Place Actions" is under the ...

Google introduced a feature that lets you to see the popular times of businesses and destinations in Search and Maps last year, and today that feature is getting a really cool addition: the ability to ...