Google has hopped on the WiFi positioning bandwagon by adding support for an undisclosed database of WiFi network locations to its Gears Geolocation API. Google said on its Code Blog that the service ...

This is not a new topic, we've been saying this for probably over a decade and even Matt Cutts posted a video answer on it in 2013. But hey - John Mueller from Google answered it again. You are ...

After hinting that it would do so last June, Google’s mobile team has released a Geolocation API for Google Gears. This works both on mobile phones and laptops running Gears, but developers will find ...

You know that big blue circle that hangs out around your icon in any Google-powered maps application? That whole area is where you might be, be it that Google didn ...

First go read Greg Sterling's write up at Search Engine Land named Location in the Browser: What Does It Mean? Now that you read that, you will realize that the implication of Google adding ...

September 19, 2012. A day that will live in infamy. It was the day that everyone who owned an Apple iOS device and who wanted to upgrade to the latest version of the mobile operating system hit the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. One of the most key-yet most overlooked-elements of this ...

Although a seemingly small step, by including support for the W3C’s geolocation API in it’s latest build, Google is now one step closer to its rumored (fabled?) tablet. This is because, in order to ...

If you serve country-specific content to end users, you won't be penalized as long as you make sure that what you serve to Googlebot is the same as what you would serve to a user from the same country ...