Recently, Google started including ads in the bubble that appears when a searcher scrolls over a map marker on maps.google.com. This has caused a minor stirring among business owners so I wanted to give a few thoughts on how this can be viewed and how you can exclude your business from showing up in the

After much anticipation, Google + pages are finally available for businesses.  Creating and maintaining a page for your business allows you to share and promote your business and then measure the results through Google Analytics and Google AdWords. It’s easy to create a Google+ page.  Go to http://www.google.com/+/business/ and follow the instructions. You will have

If you’ve been keeping up with Google’s changes to their Places interface, you would have noticed that some listings were noted with “Reported to Be Closed” or “This place is Permanently Closed.” This is due in part to user’s being able to suggest edits to listings in Google’s Map Maker, in which Google moderators review

As we all know, Google has been making some pretty big changes in their Places layout over the last few weeks. However, that’s not all they have been up to. I would like to point out some other big changes Google has been rolling out over the past couple of weeks. Google Maps Weather The

Google Earth, the wondrous program that allows us to visit some of the greatest sights in the world directly from our home, as well as randomly catch cheating spouses, underwear on a clothesline, etc. is now good for something else amazing-spying on our neighbors.  More importantly, determining if our neighbors are part of the fastest