From swimming to sushi: Austinites share their favorite places at happy hour

Ask any group of Austinites what the top places in the city are, and you’re bound to start a controversial conversation. With so many great ...

Meet your Google Places neighbor: Stephanie Nemeth

Editor’s Note : Now and then we'll spotlight one of our amazing Google Places reviewers. Both so you guys can start to get to know one ...

Round 2 of the Google Places voyage with Brewvana

We recently set out on an encore Brewvana tour, after the first one was such a big hit with our Google Places users. These tours, as you’...

Discovering Austin’s best tacos with Google Places

Tacos. If there’s one truly quintessential Austin food, this simple Tex-Mex staple may well be it.  From breakfast tacos to fish tacos to ...

Google New York Gets its Galactic Star Groove on at the Prospect Park Summer Soiree

On July 21, the Google Places team headed out to The Boathouse in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for a very special event: the 2011 Summer Soiree...

Google Maps 5.8 for Android adds photo uploads, My Places, and more

(Cross-posted on the Google Lat Long Blog .)   Today, Google Maps 5.8 for Android improves Places and Latitude with: Upload photos for a ...

Sendai Places Campaign: Now Open

Ever since the earthquake and tsunami hit Northeastern Japan, the Tokyo team has been working on different ways to help the affected areas....

Meet your Google Places neighbor: John Roche

Editor’s Note : Now and then we'll spotlight one of our amazing Google Places reviewers. Both so you guys can start to get to know one ...

Google New York celebrates Taco Tuesday at The Brooklyneer ... in Manhattan

There are plenty of good taco joints in this grand City of ours — that is, if you know where to look. So we here on the Google Places team c...

Absolute art: Celebrating Madison’s favorite places

A couple weekends ago, we held the first in a series of four artistic workshops hosted by the Google Places team in Madison, Wisconsin . Ou...

Satisfying San Diegan cravings: Taco Tuesday, Froyo Thursday and free cupcakes

Word is spreading around San Diego: Taco Tuesday with Google Places is the place to be for good company and great food. The other Tuesday we...

Meet your Google Places neighbor: Riquet Aouad

Editor’s Note : Now and then we'll spotlight one of our amazing Google Places reviewers. Both so you guys can start to get to know one a...

Meet your Google Places neighbor: Josh Gann

Editor’s Note : Now and then we'll spotlight one of our amazing Google Places reviewers. Both so you guys can start to get to know one ...

Woof! Google Places goes to Brooklyn, NY for Bark Hot Dogs

Bark Hot Dogs and Google Places have something in common: both love local. Bark makes its hot dogs from quality cuts of meat using ingredi...

Hawaiian Happy Hour with Google New York

Even the most die-hard New Yorker yearns to get out of the city sometimes — especially in the summer, when the heat can be pretty oppressive...

Meet your Google Places neighbor: Ann Nguyen

Editor’s Note : Now and then we'll spotlight one of our amazing Google Places reviewers. Both so you guys can start to get to know one ...

Meet your Google Places neighbor: Paul Lewis

Editor’s Note : Now and then we'll spotlight one of our amazing Google Places reviewers. Both so you guys can start to get to know one ...

Google Places hosts Taco Tuesdays and Froyo Thursdays in San Diego

Being just 15 miles from the border, San Diego is host to some of the best Mexican restaurants in the country, so it’s no surprise that cele...