Comments on: Why Google City Tours is Important to Tourism

By: Agenzia viaggi Giordania

Agenzia viaggi Giordania — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:26:00 +0000

First, thanks for your insightful post. I like your website and find it exceptionally informative. I admire your talent of saying (by blogging) small things that other blogger do not take the time to mention.

By: Google City Tours: ottime possibilità di investimenti in Local Search Marketing « GoogleMaps: esperimenti e riflessioni di Local Search

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:18:27 +0000

[...] un ulteriore approfondimento sull’importanza di Google City [...]

By: Orlando Vacation Rentals

Orlando Vacation Rentals — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:40:28 +0000

With all of this new technology, it is difficult to tell where this is all going. More importantly, Google always seems to be one step ahead.

By: Orlando Vacation Rentals

Orlando Vacation Rentals — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:40:28 +0000

With all of this new technology, it is difficult to tell where this is all going. More importantly, Google always seems to be one step ahead.

By: Cost2Drive

Cost2Drive — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:32:39 +0000

Great blog and thoughtful posts. I'll need to follow on Twitter.

Regarding what Google is up to, that's never clear. Most of the time I think they're just playing around with mashups to see what sticks. Sometimes nothing does (remember Google Base and Froogle?) But I agree there could be some deeper strategic play here around the local advertiser market. By focusing on the travel angle they'll be able to capture the subset of the market that's interested in the inbound visitor, something the Yellow pages directories don't address very well. It's something we've noticed at Cost2Drive and so are building a product to address as well.

By: Cost2Drive

Cost2Drive — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:32:39 +0000

Great blog and thoughtful posts. I'll need to follow on Twitter.

By: jaime

jaime — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:19:07 +0000

Dear Joan,

My first search was "Madrid" and this was the result:

Hanania Museum S.l. (Hanania Museum S.l.)
09:05, for 60 minutes
walk about 5 minutes
Vincci Centrum Hotel (Vincci Centrum Hotel)
10:10, for 60 minutes
walk about 7 minutes
The Westin Palace, Madrid (The Westin Palace, Madrid)
11:17, for 60 minutes
walk about 8 minutes
Museo del Ejército (Military Museum) (Museo del Ejército (Military Museum))
12:25, for 60 minutes
walk about 4 minutes
Museo Naval Madrid (Museo Naval Madrid)
13:29, for 60 minutes
walk about 14 minutes
De Las Letras H&R - A member of Design Hotels (Hotel De Las Letras)
14:43, for 60 minutes
walk about 12 minutes
Hotel Petit Palace Puerta del Sol - Sun Square (Hotel Petit Palace Puerta del Sol - Sun Square)
15:55, for 60 minutes
walk about 3 minutes

Are hotels so important to visit in madrid? I think it needs a little mor development

By: jaime

jaime — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:19:07 +0000

By: Juan Gonzalez

Juan Gonzalez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:36:54 +0000

Anyone who has tried to make sense of the wealth of information available in the travel space knows that it takes infrastructure of the scale of Google to deliver such a simple application. You can appreciate the complexities of itinerary planning by trying some foreign cities on Google City Tours and realizing the data points may not be your first choice. The next step is to find reliable ways to identify those experiences, activities, landmarks that will truly create a tour everyone would want to join. At PlanetEye our focus continues to be on identifying reliable sources of information and it seems that layer of quality may be what City Tours will soon need.

By: Juan Gonzalez

Juan Gonzalez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:36:54 +0000