While my stay in Berlin I was looking for restaurants to eat. So I googled “restaurants in berlin”.
And guess what I found? Well, of course googles local search listing, but what else? In the sponsored listings, in the number one spot? Again Google’s local listings – an advertisement for maps.google.de !
I thought that is really interesting. Considering that they are one of the biggest data mining companies worldwide they must have a pretty good grip on where the profits are to be made, and this step seems like they’re now pushing their way seriously into some local markets – I guess local magazines will find it increasingly hard to compete with that.
