google places
Foursquare Declares Local Search (Yelp And Google) Broken, Vows Fix With Personalization
Foursquare escalated its battle versus Yelp and Google today with a blog post explaining that its redesigned app will beat their “one-size-fits-all results” that users get “regardless of their interests or…
Google Places Now Borrowing Yelp Reviews Without Attribution In iPhone App
Google Places is at it again, brazenly borrowing reviews from Yelp. But this time it’s in their iPhone app and they are not even bothering to link back to Yelp…
Google Kills Tags In Favor Of Boost
Google is killing Tags, an advertising product for local businesses which allowed them to enhance their Google Maps or Places listings. For a flat $25 monthly fee, local merchants could…
Google Places Swallows The Awkwardly Named "Hotpot"
I can’t recall Google pushing a product as hard as they’ve pushed Hotpot on their blogs in recent months. I swear that on a daily basis there’s some sort of…
Google Serves Places On The iPhone With A Side Of Hotpot
Google Places is now on your iPhone. If you download the app (iTunes link) you get a mobile version of Google Places, Google’s local directory. It shows you nearby restaurants,…
Google Targets Small Businesses With $100 Million Worth Of AdWords Credits
Google is going after local businesses in a big way. It is promoting Google Places any time someone does a local search, it tried to buy Groupon for $6 billion,…
Google, These Aren't Really The Best Answers For Users. They Are The Best Answers For You.
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an article pointing out how Google is increasingly favoring its own properties, in search results over natural results to outside sites which…
Twitter Places Is Nothing New, But The Ability To Claim Venues Is Being Tested
Okay everyone, let’s calm down. Currently making the rounds on the Internet is that Twitter is about to launch a Foursquare-killer, Twitter Places. The only problem? They actually launched it…
It's A Location Turf War As Google Rolls Out Place Search
Back in April, we noted that Google was about to escalate the so-called “location wars” by reworking and rebranding their Locale Business Center as Google Places. They’ve since done a…
Fwix Shifts From Local News To Places: "We Are Automating Patch"
For the past two years, Fwix has been building a hyperlocal news site for cities and neighborhoods around the country in a very automated fashion. Its homepage for every city…
Google: There Have To Be Yelps In The World, But…
Today during our Social Currency CrunchUp, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Hanke, a Google VP of Product Management, took the stage. Given that the two companies seem to be at…
Google Opens Places API With Initial Focus On Check-In Apps
At Google I/O in May, the search giant indicated that they were about to take their commitment to location to the next level. Sure, Latitude had been around for a…
Not Only Is Google Places Going After Yelp, They're Doing So With Yelp's Content
Earlier today, we noted that an update to Google Maps for Mobile was the clearest sign yet of Google going directly after Yelp. But it’s actually even more interesting than…
Google May Not Have Bought Yelp, But They Sure Are Trying To Own Them With Places
Perhaps you recall that late last year, Google was in discussions to buy Yelp. Despite a supposed offer of $550 million plus earn-outs, Yelp walked away from the deal. But…
Happy Friday: 100 More Tickets Released for July 30 Summer Party
UPDATE: Batch if tickets is sold out. Check back again next week. We’re releasing another 100 tickets now to our July 30 summer party at August Capital. Act fast if…
Google Escalates The Location War With Google Places
The Location War going on right now has many fronts (Foursquare, Twitter, search, mobile), but it is being funded by one thing: convincing local businesses to spend money on online…
