Category: Google Maps

Google posted in the Google Maps Help forums that on January 11, 2017 they will be discontinuing the Google Earth API and also sunsetting Google Earth 4.

Google wrote, “in December 2014…

If you have a business that is based in the United States or Canada and it isn’t verified on Google My Business…

Google has quietly announced on the features page that businesses can now “add your menu to a listing via the API, according to new menu guidelines for Google My Business.” Well, it seems it can be done also outside of the API…

For a while, we’ve been wondering what the different colors for the map pins represent. We have seen red, blue, purple, brown and other colors over the years…

The folks in the Google Maps Help forums and Local Search Forums are not happy that Google is no longer showing local boundaries in Google maps.

Starting about a week ago, the boundaries lines from Google Maps disappeared…

This is a weird one – according to Tim Capper in the Local Business Forums, official support representatives from the Google My Business team are telling those who had their businesses suspended on Google My Business to submit reconsideration requests …

Google quietly added a new features to Google My Business Settings at business.google.com/settings that let’s you configure when and how you’d like to get notifications about changes or additions to your business listings on Google…

Google quietly added a new features to Google My Business Settings at business.google.com/settings that let’s you configure when and how you’d like to get notifications about changes or additions to your business listings on Google…

Google is testing a new look for the local finder, one that is way more graphical. This was spotted by Sergey Alakov, he posted the screen shots on Twitter. And the truth is…

Google is now testing a new feature in the Google My Business area that lets customers initiate a chat with your business from your local listing in Google search or Google Maps. This was first spotted by Dino Basaldella who posted it on Google+…
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You thought back a year and a half ago when Google released popular times for venues and stores, where it showed typically how busy a store is by day and hour, that it was really cool…

Over the past week or so two different people shared with me on Twitter that Google is showing the query in the local pack, above the map embed. So not only is Google showing the query in the query box but also reinforcing that above the map pack…
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Now when you leave a review using Google Maps or Google Local results, you can add a photo or video to your review on Google. This was first spotted by Garrett Sussman who posted about it as well at the Local Search Forums…

Google has killed off their Google Map Maker product and has told people the features have “graduated” to the Google Maps app…

The Google My Business features page say Google updated the Google My Business editor yesterday. The line reads:

Update business info for your locations using the improved Google My Business editor…

Google has shut down the Google Showtimes service, which was available at google.com/movies for a long long time. The message on the site now reads:

Google Showtimes was discontinued on November 1…

Our maps sleuth spotted yet another test with Google Maps, Sergey Alakov posted on Twitter Google testing a “see web results” button in the Google Maps local results section.

If you click on that button, you are taken to the web results and out of the…

A Google My Business Help thread has a business complaining that their store hours are not coming up in the Google local listing profile.

Later on, Google said they fixed the issue…