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 ...

Google Maps Classic has been discontinued, and with it old URLs that pointed to Street View are no-longer working, including some in old posts on GEB. So we decided to write a bit of JavaScript to ...

Google expert Philipp Lenssen details how to manipulate Google Maps URLs to zoom in close enough to see an individual camel in the middle of Africa. The technique doesn't work in all locations, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Users are receiving spam notifications through the Google Maps app that asks them to share their location in order to get something for free and no one knows why. According to reports from numerous ...

Two security researchers have published research exposing the potential privacy problems connected to using Web address shortening services. When used to share data protected by credentials included ...

You might think of Google Maps as, well, maps — a way to find business location and get directions. But that's really just the tip of the iceberg, Google's mapping interface supports all sorts of ...

Google Maps, a tool search that marketers frequently use to support campaigns, has been hit with another scam. Scammers have been abusing a feature in the Maps API, the link-shortening service on ...