The GoogleBar, a control in
the Maps API to allow users to search the map for local businesses, landmarks and points of
interest, has just launched a new version. In addition to a greatly improved UI, the new
GoogleBar includes advertising targeted to the user's searches. This new feature will improve
the user experience by providing targeted and relevant sponsored results, and you can benefit
by sharing in the revenue of including these results on your site. You can see the new
GoogleBar, together with ads, below:
As shown
above, the new version of the GoogleBar contains advertising. Profiting from the advertising
personally is as easy as signing
up for an AdSense account and including your AdSense
publisher ID when you create the GoogleBar. See the recent Maps API Blog post for details. Whether you already have a map on your
webpage or not, it only takes a few lines of code to embed a fully searchable map into your
site - the GoogleBar documentation will tell you everything you need to
know.
