July 17, 2006 Comments
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One of the things I always liked about Google's search results was that entering a business name and city usually resulted in quick and easy access to both a phone number and a map to the business's location. Now it appears that Google has decided to go a step further. I noticed today that Google is showing the mini-map right alongside the basic business information right there in the Onebox area of the search results.
You can see an example of this at work below...
While it's nice to see this new feature added, it's sort of annoying to be used to being able to click on that little red dot to prompt a pop-up box for directions. With the Onebox map, you have to click on the image to get forwarded to the page where you can THEN click on the red dot to prompt the pop-up box.
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