SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Google My Maps
Google Allows Group Collaboration On My Maps
The Google Lat Long Blog announced that My Maps now can be built by groups of people, not just individuals. Maps can be edited by only selected friends and family or by Google Maps users at large. The benefits of this are fairly straightforward: group travel planning, collective favorites, better overall data (wisdom of crowds), […]
Google Maps Goes Wikimapia, Lets The People Move The Map Points
Registered Google users are now permitted to adjust the place markers for businesses on Google Maps and soon will have the ability to more broadly edit local business information. Changes will initially go through a human editorial process to ensure the accuracy and propriety of information as the new capabilities are rolled out. Google told […]
San Francisco Oil Spill Maps & Wishing For Better Community Map Search Tools
Trying to figure out the impact of last week’s oil spill in San Francisco Bay, which happened after the container ship Cosco Busan hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge? There are maps to the rescue! Links to them below, along with some observations on the difficulty in finding community-built maps like these in Google Maps. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Maps Now Offers User Profile Pages
The Google LatLong blog announced that you can now create a profile for the MyMaps you make. For example, you can find my profile over here. It shows all my public maps that I have created, plus a little bio that I wrote about myself. It also shows all the reviews I have made about […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Maps Adds “Community Maps” To Default Map Searches
The Google LatLong Blog announced that Google Maps is now displaying “community map” results by default for your map queries. These are maps and map points made through the Google My Maps feature.
Microsoft Introduces New Live Search Index, Adds Features In Effort To Close ‘Relevancy Gap’ And Improve User Experience
Compete and Nielsen show Microsoft gaining search share over the summer, while comScore and Hitwise show the company losing share. Regardless of these numbers, however, Microsoft is confident that the search engine it’s reintroducing tonight in conjunction with its Searchification event will be a substantial improvement of the current version of Live search. Vanessa Fox […]
Google Maps Further Expands Coverage
Google announced expanded Maps coverage of Latin American and Asian countries on its LatLong blog. Recently added countries include: Afghanistan, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Adds Distance Measurement to My Maps
The Google Lat Long Blog reports that users drawing trail or hiking maps with its My Maps line tool will now get automatic distance measurements between points when they create personalized maps. This is a small but useful enhancement, one of many recent incremental improvements that Google has added to Google Maps.
Google Building Out Non-US Maps Data With Users
Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar reports on Google’s GPS-based “crowdsourcing” strategy to get local data on Maps outside the US (specifically in India). While Google has enormous amounts of data for the US and EU, in selected countries there’s much less data to plot on Maps. Accordingly Google is relying on users (e.g., My Maps) […]
Microsoft vs. Google: Street Photography Rigs Compared
Gizmodo, in something of a tongue-in-cheek post, compares the cars and cameras Google is using to capture its StreetView imagery with those being used by Microsoft for what has been known as StreetSide. StreetSide is a Live Local product that predated Google’s StreetView but has been limited to San Francisco and Seattle. What this post […]
NY Times Covers Mashups And User-Generated Content
The New York Times has a long article on mashups, the state of online mapping and user-generated content more generally. It’s an overview piece, but does a good job of capturing the fact that online mapping in particular is one of the important trends online: visualizing all sorts of data on a map, whether local […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 11, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Mapplets: Google Endorses Mashups, Makes Some More Interactive
The Google Lat Long Blog announced a new feature available on Google Maps that enables you to add “Mapplets” directly on the “My Maps” section. These Mapplets, often referred to as mashups, allow you to add data on top of the maps. Some of the data overlays include real estate listings, jogging trails, events and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Wired Mag Waxes Wordy About Maps & Local
First, for map and online mapping lovers, there is the Wired piece, Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World, an interesting survey of the history of the mapping at Google, mashups, mapping APIs, Google’s acquisition of Keyhole (now Google Earth) and user-generated content on maps (My Maps). Then there is the tiresome […]
Yahoo Travel Adds Personalization, New Maps
Yahoo Travel has redesigned and added a range of features, including personalization and new mapping tools to the site. It’s also seeking to more deeply integrate travel properties FareChase (its fares and rates “meta search” engine) and Trip Planner (its user-generated content site) into Travel. Flickr is also well represented throughout the redesign. I’m not […]
iGoogle, Personalized Search And You
Yesterday was “Google Personalization Day” for me and a number of others who attended a meeting at Google with Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience, as well as Google Personalization Technical Lead Sep Kamvar and iGoogle Product Manager Jessica Ewing. Barry has captured much of the factual information coming out of the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Maps Introduce User-Generated Content
When Google launched its personalized mapping tool, My Maps, the company said it would soon be integrating user-generated content. It appears that is now happening on many Google Maps searches (hat tip to NLC Marketing Blog).
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google My Maps: Mashups For The Masses
Google has just launched “My Maps,” an impressively simple tool within Google Maps that allows users to create personal “mashups” and save or share those with friends or the world at large. A range of formatting options enables the maps to be highly customized and include images or video. Maps can be created “manually” by […]