Posts Tagged ‘Kartensuche’
Google Maps zeigt „Was ist hier?“
2 Jul. 2009 | Author: AWo |
Bei Google Maps gibt es ein neues, recht nützliches Feature. Es nennt sich „Was ist hier?“ und erlaubt den Usern per Mausklick (rechte Taste) auf die Karte herauszufinden, was sich an einem bestimmten Ort befindet.
Wie die Google-Mitarbeiter Fernando Delgado und Diana Stroe im Google Lat Long Blog verkünden, erhält man dabei je nach Zoom-Level unterschiedliche Angaben. Bei einer starken Vergrößerung der Karte bekommt man beispielsweise die genaue Adresse des angeklickten Punktes samt einer Liste von Unternehmen, die sich an diesem Platz befinden. Verkleinert man die Kartenansicht erhält man dagegen Informationen zu der Region. Zu den Orten werden, wenn vorhanden, auch passende Bilder, Videos und andere von Nutzern erstellte Inhalte angezeigt.
GoYellow fine tunes its map search
The online directory GoYellow has expanded its map search. Thereby especially the route planner has been improved.
This was revealed by GoYellow Media AG in a press release. When planning a route, the user can display POIs (points of interest) along the way, ranging from filling stations and parking garages, cafes, restaurants, hotels or food shops, through to doctors or pharmacies. To activate this display, click on “Kartensuche” [en=map search] and choose “Interessante Punkte” [en=interesting points]. However the map view becomes confusing really quickly if the user selects too many POIs. The sub-category “Sehenswürdigkeiten” [en=attractions] still appears not to work, or perhaps very few of these have been programmed as yet.
The next months with see GoYellow expanding their services in the map search field.
Posted in Local Search per PC, Local Search, News, Practical features | 
Tags: GoYellow, GoYellow Media AG, Kartensuche, Routenplaner | 
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Google Maps edges localized ads more into view
For quite a while now, Google Maps has offered localized advertising, visible on search results pages. As of recently, these ads have now been moved into a more prominent position directly under the generated map.
Ads on the Google Maps site are now displayed on the left side of the pages, either or both above and below the results list. To clearly separate the ads from the results, the ads are generated in blue, and labelled with “Advert” [de=Anzeige]. In addition, Google is also now allowing ads to appear directly in the map views – whereas regular search results are marked in red, ads are given the option of various special symbols, which are then also linked visually with the text link at the left.
On each results page, a total of 4 Adwords Ads are displayed, with one above, and three below the search results. The latest innovation is that now the three lower ads can also be displayed under the map view, and therefore in the center of the page. However, only one of the three lower ads is ever visible at one time… one can navigate to the other two ads using an arrow button.
The reasons for these new measures probably came as a result that most users usually only saw the upper search results, and the lower results are certainly viewed less often, if at all. With the addition of the results directly under the map, Google is trying to compensate for the lost views, by raising these ads effectively to display higher up on the page.
Posted in Local Search per PC, Local Search, New Search Machine Interest, News, Local Search Engines, lokales SEM |
Tags: Anzeige, Anzeigen, Google, google maps, Kartensuche, lokale Informationen, Maps, Suchdienst, Suchmaschinenmarketing, Suchmaschinenprimus, Suchmaschinenriese, Werbung |
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Dialo.de: New look and revised navigation
Dialo.de, the local search and ratings service, had a relaunch in August 2008, beautifying the internet presence and optimizing its navigation.
Users are thus enabled with a faster overview of the site, says the service provider Dialo GmbH & Co. Kg in a press release. The site overhaul has placed the map search in a higher position on the start page, thereby relegating the City Guides to a stronger position in the center of the portal. The City Guides link is now not only in the right hand navigation bar, but also in the middle of the page in a tab, adjacent to the Branch-directory search. The City Guides provide users with city general information, photos and a selection of local top offerings.
The search option “Name zu Nummer” (reverse search) is no longer available; this previously returned the name and address of entered telephone numbers. Another lost feature is the ‘Person Search’ tab, which appears, however, only once a search has been started, within the results list.
The noted website however also introduces a new Web 2.0 service: according to Dialo GmbH, firms, craftspeople and service providers are now able to place advertisements on this ratings platform, via wallpaper and banners.
