Google Business Photos Expands To Europe & Asia

By Barry Schwartz

Published: May 31, 2013 at 9:18 am

Google announced they have expanded their business photos program into Europe and Asia.

Google Business Photos is a way for you to share the inside of your stores on Google Maps. There are groups of trusted photographers that take the photos for syndication into the program. Now, this is available in more places around the world.

Specifically, seven new countries now support this program including Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland.

The Business Photos program enables merchants to create 360-degree, interactive tours of their establishments. This imagery is published on Google so potential customers can look inside and explore businesses before they go.

Here is a sample of a business photo:

For more details, see this blog post.

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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