Google Maps without a map – Launched in India
Take away maps from Google Maps and you will get Google Local Search – sort of.
The Indian business data core listings are provided by INFOMEDIA Yellow Pages and India.com.
Read more at contnetsutra. Google launches local search Or @ krishna’s weblog Google Local for India (Indian Google employee)
Google employees as door to door salesmen - for Maps special offer
Just read this article in a German marketing magazine /in the printed version/ about Google employees in Hamburg Germany trying quite a new way of promoting their offers for small businesses.

120 Google employees each carrying a coloured cardboard
Google Maps - Text View and Sort by Distance
Being quite busy lately I’ve somehow missed some changes on the Google Maps website’s interface.
They have rolled out the “text-view” which gives them way more space to add textual information to the core business listings.



