RSSGoogle Local Becomes 'Maps' Again
By Nate Mook | Published April 21, 2006, 11:20 AM
Google early Friday announced it was responding to customer feedback and bringing back the Google Maps brand, which has been merged into a unified Google Local site last October. The company said it was trying to emphasize the wide range of local features the service offered, but most users continued to identify the site as Google Maps.
"Does this mean that local search is no longer important to Google? Absolutely not! Google Maps continues to have the killer combination of maps, driving directions, and local business search. And local search has become a fundamental part of the Google search experience," says product manager Thai Tran. A "Maps" link has replaced "Local" on the Google homepage.
That is true how popular Google is, the smallest thing makes big news. But they were the first to come up with sat images, everyone else followed. They were the first with multi gig email storage, everyone else followed. So it's no wonder people follow what they do very closely. They are definitely doing something right unlike all the other veterans in the industry just chilling waiting for the new guys, such as Google to make the move into new and innovative features/products so they can be the 2nd and 3rd to market with the same thing. I have yet to find anything that Google does or innovates to be a dud in the market. The calender they just came out with is great, I hope they keep up the great work! Not to mention the personalized home page! They will have my online search even if they eventually suck compared to the competition as long as they keep innovating.
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|Wow, they change a word and the whole world raves about it. Says how dependent we've become of good olde Google.
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|Who cares what they call it, why don't they just add wheel mouse scrolling finally?
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|Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is a U.S. public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation in September, 1998, that designs and manages a popular Internet search engine. The company employs approximately 5,700 employees and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric s***, formerly chief executive officer of Novell, was named Google's CEO when co-founder Larry Page stepped down.
The name "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which refers to the number represented by 1 followed by one hundred zeros. "Googling" is using the popular search engine Google.com to look up someone's name in an effort to find out more about them. You might Google your neighbor, your old college roommate, or someone you've recently met to see what information is available about them on the Internet. With the increase of business in China, Google announced its Chinese name 谷歌 (pinyin: gǔ gē), which literally means "Song of the Crop" with 谷 (gǔ) standing for 'Crop' and 歌 (gē) for 'Song' on April 12, 2006.
Google's services are run on several server farms, each consisting of many thousand low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down versions of Linux. While the company does not provide detailed information about its hardware, it was estimated in 2005 that they were using over 100,000 Linux machines [1]. According to the Nielsen cabinet, Google is the first search engine on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Yahoo! (23%) and MSN (13%). It registers about a billion requests per day, which it records with no time-limit "to improve its search engines" [2].
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|wtf?
Sorry, man, fail to see the point of this one...
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|Maps just makes more sense. The "local" thing just didn't do it justice.
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|typing any address in the search box still brings me up a map and directions .... what difference does this make ??? local ... maps .....
same **** !!!!
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|I thought we established this a looooong time ago, people are umm... STUPID!!!
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|no complaints here, local.google.com still resolves to the same place, and that's good enough for me
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