I know I posted about this earlier on Search Engine Land, but it bears repeating here in the event that anyone reading this doesn’t also read SEL (why not?). Read and bookmark this:
A Brief History of Google Places
I’m not sure what’s “brief” about it, but David Mihm has put together a great reference page that covers important news and milestone’s about Google’s local efforts going back to 2004 and continuing up to the present day. If I was still doing the SEMMY Awards, pretty sure that one would win for 2012.
