Sending someone a Google Maps URL can be a pain, because they tend to be very long. To remedy this, Google has integrated their previously mentioned goo.gl URL shortening service into Google Maps, so ...

Last month, Google announced that it would be shutting down the goo.gl URL shortening service and replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links. But before those short links disappear, scammers continue to ...

The technology industry is full of instances where a well-timed new product or service can give rise to a new niche industry sector. Facebook and the iPhone, for instance, gave birth to whole new ...

Google Maps is a crucial tool for businesses and users alike, and recently the service has undergone a change. For the past several days, users have noticed that clicking URLs in Google Maps results ...

Here’s a fun experiment to launch the Google Maps app via URL scheme directly into a new Directions view. With these parameters, it becomes possible to set up a nice automated workflow to launch ...

Google is aware of, and working on a fix, for a bug in how it displays business URLs from Google Maps. As SIM Partners reported yesterday, local business listings on Google.com are showing links to ...

There's no denying it--those Google Maps URLs are Ridiculously long. But given the number of links requested on a regular basis--and the specificity of each--that's really no surprise. To save ...

For approximately five days now, if a searcher tries to click your website URL within your Google Maps listing, they will receive a “redirect notice” from Google. The notice reads: “The previous page ...

For anyone with minimalist tastes or an inability to use copy-paste keyboard shortcuts, URL shorteners may seem like a perfectly helpful convenience. Unfortunately, the same tools that turn long web ...

Frequently using Google Maps for directions? Reader Pham writes in with a simple but interesting way to save time when looking up directions. Basically, the multi-step process of going to Google [Maps ...