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Google Web Development

Set the Width for a Google Maps InfoWindow

Working with Google Maps v3 is way fun. If you’re a masochist. It seems like there’s no easy way to set the width of an InfoWindow. You can set the minWidth parameter, but that does nothing. If you have content that exceeds the InfoWindow window, you get this: a scrolling box. That’s terrible. The solution […]

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Google

Google Place Pages – Google Finally Shows its Answer to Yelp.com

Google finally goes “local directory” in Place Pages Google had been lagging behind sites like Yelp.com in providing a place to find information about businesses. If you did a local search, you would have a “More info…” link that would expand your search result inside the map and have tabs that were badly organized. Not […]

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Google SEO

New Google search results — OneBox is upgraded

Google’s OneBox results getting smarter Recently, Google seems to have updated their algorithm for when they show the mapped results (or, “OneBox”). It used to be that the OneBox would show up when viewing 10 results at a time for many most local searches. Now, the OneBox only shows up when viewing locally relevant industries or […]

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Personal

Google is crazy and amazing: Completed Street View of Denver

I went to Google Maps today, and I found that Google has updated its Street View functionality to include almost ALL of Denver and the suburbs, including Boulder. This is a CRAZY amount of information.  It’s a truly boggling accomplishment.  I’m kind of shocked.Check out Street View yourself.