Google Maps for iPhone is now more useful, or more annoying, depending on who you ask. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has apparently started to include ads (sponsored results) and user-generated content in their Google Maps hunt results. The sponsored and user-generated hunt results ar displayed alongside run-of-the-mill Google Maps businesses. For some, that agency added value through added selective information. For others, it agency having to filter through additional horseshit to get information on a place of interest.
I oasis’t yet been able to pull up a sponsored ad on any Google Maps hunt on my iPhone, but there are reports from around the vane that hunt results are displaying ads. Other reports indicate that drug user-generated content is organism pulled from the Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK)-owned Plazes.com overhaul. Of course, it was only a matter of time before Google started publicizing within Google Maps for iPhone.
Still, some bloggers seem to think that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) isn’t keen on Google’s bolstered Google Maps searches, but the iPhone manufacturer, makes it clear in their verbal description of Google Maps that search results “tin include places of interest added by Google My Maps users (“User-created content”), and sponsored links that appear as special icons.” Apple’s controller of the Google Maps iPhone app tin only go as far as the app itself – the database that it pulls selective information from is under complete Google controller.
So, rich person any of you experienced a Google Maps for iPhone ad or user-generated subject? Let us know what search terms you used!
[Via: TheAppleBlog]
