User-Generated Content in Google Maps

Posted by jonathan at 5:39pm EST on 02/27/2008

I’m about a year off with this one, but no better time than the now.

Google is offering user-generated content within Google Maps. I’m not sure why I hadn’t ever seen it before, but here it is.

How useful is it? I don’t know. Looks like just a bit of information that mucks up the search results right now. Here’s an example below.

User-Generated Content on Google Maps

This is an example of local search for Google. Give it a shot yourself!

Here’s an example query, “couches 10004

Incoming search terms:

  • GOOGLE MAPS User-Generated Content

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