Google announced on Monday that it has begun rolling out a couple new features for Google Shopping with an emphasis on local merchants. These would be local storefronts and local a...
Foursquare has just made another small step in their push to challenge Yelp, Google Places, and other local search and discovery apps. Starting today, Foursquare users can now sear...
Google announced the launch of a new Zagat experience across the website and Android and iOS apps. Included is free access to its "trusted" Zagat ratings and reviews without regist...
Google announced today that it is launching 360-degree, interactive photos for 167 of the 294 restaurants participating in NYC Restaurant Week (next week).
Google Maps summer i...
Google announced today that it is adding a new carousel feature for local search results on the top of some search results pages. It looks essentially like the recently redesigned...
Blekko has just launched a new smartphone version of its mobile search product izik, which until now was only for iPad and Android tablets.
The app, now available in Apple's A...
Yelp has made some changes to its Nearby feature to make it more useful and show suggestions for places that are near you. Suggestions are based not only on location, but also on p...
At the LeWeb conference in London this week, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman took to the stage to discuss his business with host Loic Le Meur. Inevitably, the topic of fake reviews and...
Over the past year or so, Foursquare has been going through a major transformation - well, at least a major improvement. What they've been doing is making both small and large twea...
As part of the "Friday 15" series for small business owners, Google has shared a video discussing the importance of online reviews.
It features Whitney Lemon from Google's' "Ge...
Google made local business pages (and the reviews contained within) a lot more visible this week, with the launch of Google Now for the iPhone and iPad. That includes negative revi...