Local business listings will now be featured more prominently in regular Google searches instead of being contained within Google Maps. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as ...

Google has launched Google Instant Search for Google Place search results. To see this yourself, conduct a search on Google and then click on “Places” in the left-hand panel. Then type in the 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 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 ...

Specifically, Google knows 50 million places, and when you search for say "museums new york," it now shows you a new kind of search result that replaces a list of links with a list of mini-pages for ...

Google says you’ll also be able to ask other, non-navigation related questions to Gemini, such as getting a news briefing, ...