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Google Maps Adds More Cities to Transit Layer and Full Schedule
Google Maps has added more cities to its Transit feature. Transit helps people find public transportation schedules.
New full-schedule areas include:
- Calgary
- Hamilton
- Edmonton
- York Region in Canada
- East Midlands (UK)
- Houston (TX)
- 21 agencies in the state of Virginia
- China – connecting all provinces with 3100 train lines, covering 2700 stations and all major cities
Added to the Transit Layer are:
- Adelaide
- Atlanta
- Bonn
- Calgary
- Davis, California
- Hamilton, Canada
- Pilsen
- Sacramento
- Torino
- Toronto
- York region
Updates have been added in the Transit Layer for:
- Cape Town
- Johannesburg
- Pretoria
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Google Launches Mobile App for Windows Mobile
Google has launched its Mobile App for Windows Mobile. It can be downloaded at m.google.com.
The app provides faster search. The origin of search begins in the app instead of first waiting for the browser to load.
Windows Mobile users in the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany can download the Google Mobile App. The app has already been released for Blackberry, the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Check out this video to learn more about Google’s Mobile App for Windows Mobile:
Second Android Phone Unveiled at Mobile World Congress
The second phone using Google’s Android mobile operating system has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Like the G1, this one is manufactured by HTC. Dubbed the “HTC Magic,” the phone will be made available by Vodafone in UK, Germany, Spain and France. It will also be made available in Italy, but with non-exclusive carrier rights.
The Magic has no keyboard (whereas the G1 does have one), meaning typing will occur on the touchscreen only. It boasts a 3.2 inch screen and trackball.
The first Android phone, G1, was first released by T-mobile in the US last November.
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adCenter Offers Limited Release of Desktop Application
Microsoft launched an adCenter desktop application last June, but only to a closed beta. Now, the tool is opening up to a larger number of advertisers.
U.S. and Canadian advertisers with 100,000 keywords or less in their combined adCenter campaigns are now eligible to use the tool. Advertisers in the U.K. and France will get the tool soon, as well.
Microsoft is also prepping the adCenter desktop for advertisers with a larger number of keywords. They hope to have it ready by this summer.
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Live Search Adds Fourth Mainline Ad Position in the UK
Live Search has added a fourth mainline position for its search ads in the UK. The move comes after getting feedback from their PPC advertisers about wanting more clicks.
Writing on the adCenter blog, Tina Kelleher says, “After listening to your feedback around wanting to generate more clicks for your PPC campaigns on adCenter, we’ve made some enhancements that will not only provide extra ad visibility to help boost incoming traffic, but will also provide an improved layout and better search experience for our users…Results have been positive since the launch, so we’re really excited to roll this out to the UK market.”
Live Search added a fourth mainline in the U.S. last September. It must be working because search was a positive note in an otherwise unfavorable earnings report for Microsoft’s recenetly reported second quarter.
Here’s a screenshot of a search with the 4th ad:
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Google UK Testing New AdWords Interface
UK based SEM company AccuraCast reported about Google’s testing of a new interface in AdWords.
The interface shows a few new layouts for data display in Google AdWords. The new filters have also been launched in the US. Changes to the navigation have yet to be added to my accounts.
Some of these new tabs – like the Search Partner breakout will be handy.
Jill Nash to Depart Yahoo; Scott Moore Heads to Microsoft
Chief communications officer Jill Nash is leaving Yahoo. I can’t say that I blame her. Dealing with the press during turbulent and ultimately failed Microsoft acquisition attempt plus dropping stocks plus Jerry Yang’s stepping down as CEO must have been exhausting.
Also, former Yahoo Scott Moore is headed back to Microsoft to run content efforts for the U.S. Moore left Yahoo last November. If you’d like to read about his back-and-forth career in Silicon Valley, read Swisher’s tabloid-esque piece here.
Serious About Local: GetListed.org
Need to get your small business better ranked on the search engines and don’t know how? Well there is a tool out there now that will give you help – and it’s free.
Pat Sexton and David Mihm have joined forces to help small businesses get better listed locally in the search engines with the launch of GetListed.org.
The tool checks how well your site is optimized for local placement in the search engines. It runs a placement test in Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Local as well as the Best of the Web Local Directory. They concentrated on these as they did not want to swamp people with unknown sites, Pat Sexton told me. “We have been approached by others but are staying with the ones we have for the moment,” he added.
The system allows you to see any errors in your listings which is handy, as well as any reviews that exist out there.positive or negative.
The site has been well received since its launch – small business blogs have helped push the information out, Sexton noted. “We got out to a lot of real small business people already so we are happy.”
While only connected for the US – at the moment – they will be launching in Canada, the UK and Australia in the near future. Other countries and languages are slated for later integration.
“There was a lot of small businesses getting screwed by services that cost way too much,” Sexton said. Not anymore Pat – great job – am sure this one becomes an overnight hit.
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