Google’s Place Pages: What Are They?
Yeah, I know I’ve written a lot about Google the last few weeks. I didn’t really set out to do that, but they just keep releasing so much stuff! And they are the big dog so I think it’s important to keep track of them. Today’s piece is about a new feature available within Google Maps called Place Pages.
Google announced this functionality around the end of September, 2009. Until the release of Place Pages searches in Google Maps would provide some information about the locality being searched in or a specific place such as a restaurant. The purpose of Place Pages seems to be to provide the user with one all the relevant information about it organized in one place.
You may have seen the information bubble that would pop in a Google Map about a specific place on the map. Now when you click the  ’more info’ link you’ll be taken to a web page that aggregates information about the place.
For example, I ran this search at Google Maps: “brew pub washington dc.” One of the links that came back was to a brew pub called District Chop House (one of my favorites!). The Place Page is an aggregation of information about this restaurant including a map, a description and reviews.
There is even a section called details that provide info about hours, parking availability and so on. Pretty useful stuff. Try it. I think you’ll like it.
Click here to read more about this in Google’s Blog.
1 Comment
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 am
Thank you,
very interesting article