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Google Get Your Business Online is a program launched by Google in 2011 aimed at increasing the web presence of small businesses and cities by providing free advice on search engine optimization and helping business owners update their information on Google for free. [1] The program started rolling out across the US in 2012.
The Google Maps API was free for commercial use, provided that the site on which it is being used is publicly accessible and did not charge for access, and was not generating more than 25,000 map accesses a day. [135] [136] Sites that did not meet these requirements could purchase the Google Maps API for Business. [137]
Google Business Photos (now called "Indoor Street View") is a virtual tour service started by Google. It uses the same photography technique used in Google Street View in order to offer 360˚ interactive panoramas inside businesses. [ 1] Once the virtual tour is published by Google, the link to the tour is displayed directly on the search ...
Aaron and Christine Boring, a Pittsburgh couple, sued Google for invasion of privacy. Street View made a photo of their home available online, and they claimed that this diminished the value of their house, which they had chosen for its privacy. [15] They lost their case in a Pennsylvania court.
On 29 October 2010, Rasmussen announced that he had left Google, and was moving to San Francisco to work for Facebook. [3] At Facebook he was, among other things, the engineering director for the Facebook Graph Search project [9] which is a semantic search engine for the social network.
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Russia: Russia's largest search engine, Yandex, launched street panoramas on September 9, 2009. The services is available on maps.yandex.ru and maps.yandex.com. [27] Yandex's Street Panoramas is available for Moscow, and more than 150 other cities in Russia. Yandex also has the street view of the entire Moscow-Saint Petersburg motorway.
Google Maps – mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing directions and local business search. Google My Maps – a social custom map making tool based on Google Maps. Google Earth – virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography, GIS from Google's repository.