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Get Ready To Be Bombarded With Ads When Using Google Maps (news.com.au)
An anonymous reader writes: The chance to squeeze some extra advertising dollars is something rarely missed by Google. This week the company quietly announced changes to two of its most widely used services, offering businesses the chance to pay for featured advertisements in Google.com and Google Maps. In a blog post, Google senior ads vice president Sridhar Ramaswamy outlined the likely changes to Google Maps that will see users met with pop-up ads for local businesses when they use the GPS-based app. The announcement has been facetiously described online as "the Ad-pocalypse" but Google has shown more tact in their use of language, referring to the ads as "promoted pins".
joes diner: great food, cursed cheese cake provides listeria as advertised.
mega dental: Excellent, fast service set to the pace of a live speed metal band. understandable you must work the sound board properly.
Wal Mart: Theme park for the well to do. Got to beat a real human being with a sack of potatoes. set fire to aisle 12 and dispatched my own fire department. Holiday shopping for boiled shrimp and car tires unfortunately interrupted by Aer Lingus flight 8901 coming in from heathrow.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I was using Google Maps a few days ago and came to the startling realization that the information was presented too clearly, the results were simply too useful, and my satisfaction with the product was simply too high. Thank goodness Google is listening to their customers and doing something to reverse this worrying trend!
The best BLT I've ever had was just one minute into the s plane through a tesseract just outside of Albuquerque.