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 ...

Look out, Yelp and Urbanspoon, Google's elbowing into your turf with an easy-to-use Places app for iPhone. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and Commerce, CNET Group and CNET Labs Jessica is a ...

Google Place Pages seek to help users do what Yelp is equally trying to do: enable consumers to make buying decisions about local businesses. Google.com results arguably don’t give people enough ...

A few weeks ago, we covered that Google added help documentation links to Place Actions but those help pages 404ed and returned no details. Well, now they bring up details explaining that Place ...

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 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 is alerting some local businesses that they must update and save their Google Place listings, or lose it. Meanwhile, Google has made a change designed to make it easier for new business owners ...

Google Places is the business listing feature of Google Maps. Google creates business listings, and a representative for the business claims ownership of the listing. However, some nefarious ...