You can find a location on Google Maps by latitude and longitude or find a specific location's coordinates on a computer or mobile device.

Local business listings will now be featured more prominently in regular Google searches instead of being contained within Google Maps. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as ...

Google has decided to change the name of what was called the “Google Local Business Center” to “Google Places.” The rationale, according to the press release, is to better connect Google Place Pages ...

Google has launched Google Instant Search for Google Place search results. To see this yourself, conduct a search on Google and then click on “Places” in the left-hand panel. Then type in the search ...

Place Search allows a user to find a list of relevant links to restaurants, review sites, blogs and other information in their area. The results are also mapped, with red pins denoting the physical ...

Specifically, Google knows 50 million places, and when you search for say "museums new york," it now shows you a new kind of search result that replaces a list of links with a list of mini-pages for ...

Google help document sleuth, Menashe Avramov, posted on Google+ that he spotted a new link in the Google Rich Snippets documentation for "Place Actions." The new link for "Place Actions" is under the ...