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Google adds maps to Irish searches

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  • 19-05-2009 4:19pm
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    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭


    Just noticed that searches like web design waterford or restaurant waterford bring up a map in google.ie searches.

    Looks like we'll all have to get our clients to be registered in google maps.

    Bit of a bummer for those of us who work from home and don't want to publicise the fact.


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    gypsy777
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭gypsy777


    Yep...Ive noticed this as well...been informing clients all day.


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    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭randombar


    Lads any tips on how to do this?? Also is there some kind of automatic way of doing this??


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    As far as I know, you need to add the business to Google Local. They may also be adding them automatically if the site has a full address listed in the site though, not sure.

    http://www.google.com/local/add/


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    'scorthy
    Registered Users Posts: 387 ✭✭'scorthy


    Yea; noticed that also. I put up a Google Map last year for our club with a nice photo now when I Google (Firefox) the club the first hit is the map. Unfortunately it contains lots of outdated info from other linked websites, broken links from our old website and a crap photo from some other luder (to whom I've written) who hijacked my Google Map :mad: !


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    Kila
    Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭Kila


    Unless they've changed it since yesterday, they may be jumping the gun in announcing that it's good to go. I read a tweet yesterday and tried to add my company. And the form refused to accept the phone number, no matter what format I put it in, which meant I couldn't submit the form. Even more annoyingly, whenever I submitted the form and it rejected it, it reset the position of the map marker. An unfortunately frustrating experience.

    From a quick google, it would seem that I'm not the only one with the same problem - other people posted it on google news groups, including people from other countries where it was supposedly operational (a post from singapore, for example).

    If anyone does get a phone number to successfully save let me know, as I am eager to put my company up there, but not to go through the repeated submit-deny sequence I did yesterday for far too long...


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    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭conolan


    If anyone does get a phone number to successfully save let me know, as I am eager to put my company up there, but not to go through the repeated submit-deny sequence I did yesterday for far too long..
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    I just modified mine. Put in number in format (051) xxx xxx. Got a call back from google computer with a pin number. One minute later my mobile rang (they already had the number) with the same google computer giving me another pin number.


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    D.W
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭D.W


    Hi Folks,
    this has major implications across the board. Positive for many but serious consequences for others. In the travel sector for example Google has obviously "partnered" with Trip Advisor for 99.9% of the site reviews making such a system VERY biased and uncompetitive. I believe many in the hotel sector (not only in Ireland) are up in arms as there appears no logic behind the Local Search results.

    A similar thread can be seen here if of use.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055569725


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