Google wants to make local information easier to find with Place Search
Google is making another move to give consumers quick access to information about local places by rolling out Place Search, which clusters search results around specific locations. For example, if a consumer searches for a museum in Los Angeles, the…

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Google gives local businesses advertising boost
Google has just launched Boost, a location-based ad product for local businesses.

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Google CEO: Don’t like Street View? ‘Move’
Computerworld – Google CEO Eric Schmidt has again kicked up something of an online firestorm with a statement about privacy. In a CNN interview Monday, Schmidt responded to questions about what Google knows about people by saying that if people don’t like having their homes photographed for Google Street View for the world to see, they can “just move.”

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Google Maps News: 244,000 Germans Refuse Street View
Google Maps’ Street View feature may seem a little invasive, but Americans haven’t objected to the idea of their homes being photographed and broadcast on the Internet. Germany, however, isn’t going to take it lying down. Internet giant Google says more than 244,000 Germans have asked that their homes be made unrecognizable in its Street View program, scheduled to l

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A New Advertising & Webite Design Firm Opens its Doors to The Woodlands, TX Business Community
Woodlands Ad Agency, LLC a new website design, advertising, and internet marketing company, is now available to service the needs of the Greater Houston area from their corporate headquarters located in The Woodlands, TX. From Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Content Management Systems (CMS), and custom website design to full-blown internet marketing strategies, this new firm can supply …

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Bohemian Grove is a 2700-acre campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, United States, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men’s club known as the Bohemian Club. In July of each year, the Bohemian Grove hosts a three-week encampment of some of the most powerful men in the world. Please research Bohemian Grove and Bohemian Club otherwise this video will make no sense at all to you. You can view this camp with Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Terraserver. Bing Maps has a 2.5 dimensional aerial view called Birds Eye. In it, the location where the Owl Shrine and the Lake is supposed to be is retracted from Bing Maps. It has a null value so it displays the black grid pattern. Rotating the camera angle within the Birds Eye program either displays that the user cant rotate to that angle, or that it boots the user back to the aerial view. I was able to zoom out and get a screenshot of the retractions showing the missing map data. Here are maps of the Bohemian Grove: Google Maps: maps.google.com Google Street View: maps.google.com Terraserver: terraserver-usa.com Bing Maps Aerial: www.bing.com Bing Birds Eye View: www.bing.com

Election Hi-Jinks
It arrived in the mail and looked innocent enough: a check from Argent Management for $250. “Good luck,” the attached Post-it Note read. The return address on the envelope said that the check came from Carrie Bruckes…

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