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 ...

Google is introducing a mobile marketing campaign for Place Pages, a service for businesses that faced some early criticism when it launched in September. Place Pages are Web sites that Google creates ...

Friends or enemies? Partners or competitors? Google’s relationship with review sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp is as complicated as ever, and the disputes are likely to increase as the search giant ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 introduced a feature that lets you to see the popular times of businesses and destinations in Search and Maps last year, and today that feature is getting a really cool addition: the ability to ...