It's official: Google has just unveiled sponsored map icons in the United States, which will give businesses the opportunity to pay for their logos to show up directly on Google Maps, indicating the exact location of the business. Google has been toying with this idea for awhile now, even testing it out in Australia and New Zealand for six months before bringing it to the US.

In an attempt to "make Google Maps as reflective of the real world as possible", Google has launched this new feature that provides clickable icons that will appear on the map when users are searching for things.

Google states that they have two main reasons for allowing businesses to brand their locations wi

You can read the full store at Hudson Horizons Web Development Blog You Can Now Pay To Display Your Business Logo On Google Maps

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