Google will take another swing at the Yellow Pages today, integrating local business listings directly into search results. The company is set to launch Google Place Search as a standalone search ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...