Check Out Incredible Interactive 3D Business Tours on Google Places
Wowser, have you seen any of the 3D business tours Google has done show up on any Place pages yet? VERY cool! Google announced the Business Photos pilot program back in May. But they just started rolling it out on a bigger scale. You can read more and request a business photo shoot here.
I discovered an interesting thread about the new rollout on Hacker News yesterday and tracked down a few 3D business photo shoots for your viewing pleasure below. Cruise around inside these businesses and take a look!
Click arrow to go inside Gruhn Guitars – Wowser nice guitars and super high res photography! Multi-directional arrows – Where in the store would you like to go? Note: zoom in to see the inventory close up!
Here’s how the 3D tour is displayed on Gruhn Guitar’s Place Page – an animated image under the map.
Comics Toons N Toys – Walk in the front door.
Comics Toons N Toys – Detailed close up of their store inventory.
Techlab Photo & Digital – Come on in, cruise around.
Scream Sorbet – Arrow is hard to see on sidewalk – click to go inside.
What do you think?
Share any others you find in the comments below.
PS Sorry I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been buried! [begin rant] NOT helping companies which is what I’m SUPPOSED to be doing. I’ve been buried in Google bugs and Places problems. Hidden ghost dupes, businesses marked closed, smooshed phone number bugs, Google changing data without permission or warning, tons of Google changes emails that have the wrong data that I then have to prevent them from changing. Problems, problems, problems. I could blog more and help so many more people if only Google Places worked right and I didn’t have to spend all my time troubleshooting! [/end rant]
Having said all that, I am working on a big and important post. It will be a group research project that will help us all. Stay tuned.
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#1 Check Out Incredible Interactive 3D Business Tours on Google Places - Google Places Optimization Blog | Google Places Optimization News and Tips | Scoop.it wrote on October 27, 2011 :
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#2 Eric "eRock" Christopher wrote on October 28, 2011 :
Yeah, it is pretty cool… I had seen the Google video before. They had been here in Phoenix already. Hopefully they are coming back! lol…. I’ve actually seen these tours show up in the photo area of the actual Place page itself. I wonder if this adds more credibility and trust to their Places listings and adds a boost to their ranking? Do you know if these companies are ranking on page 1 for their keywords or categories?
#3 Linda Buquet wrote on October 28, 2011 :
Great Q Eric, have not checked any rankings.
#4 Andrea wrote on October 30, 2011 :
You are not alone – we’ve been trying to figure out the changes in Google places as well. We have one client that google loves the slider so much because of it’s SEO, it’s only pulling in slide bounce 6000 and other code from the slider.
Type in tree services, coral springs. We are in Google hell, and this is only for the organic search! And we can’t get photos removed from Places, so go figure that one.
#5 Linda Buquet wrote on October 30, 2011 :
Hi Andrea,
I’m sorry but I don’t understand what you mean by this: “We have one client that google loves the slider so much because of it’s SEO, it’s only pulling in slide bounce 6000 and other code from the slider.”
Does this related to the 3D business tours I was talking about? I don’t know what you mean by sliders and slide bounce. What slider code? I’m lost.
#6 Shelly wrote on October 31, 2011 :
I noticed that you can only request a photo shoot within a specific set of cities (determined by Google). We live in a very popular tourist town, however because we are small we never make it to the list for these trials. Is there a way to request a service like this for towns that are not currently on the list?
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#8 pune spa wrote on November 1, 2011 :
Great observing on the cahnges, thanks for the video link as well
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#9 Andrea wrote on November 2, 2011 :
Go to google and type in tree services coral springs. Look for Coral Springs Tree. That’s the best way I know to show you. Look at the business excerpt.