Lior Ron

Lior Ron

Google, Inc.

Lior is the Product Manager for geo search in Google, where he is trying to help the world around us get mapped using the power of the masses. Before joining Google, Lior co-founded a medical device and a search startup, and served in various managerial positions in the Israeli Intelligence, where he worked on GIS and search problems. Lior holds an MBA from Stanford and BSc and MS from the Technion – the Israeli institute for technology.

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 05/12/2008
Searching the Geoweb: Exposing Your Geo Data to Search Engines
Tutorial
 Location: Salon A-B
Lior Ron (Google, Inc. ), Mano Marks (Google, Inc. )
Have you been wondering how to drive traffic to that cool maps mashup you created recently? Simple, make it searchable. We now index geospatial content on the Web and show it as search results to users on both Google Earth and Google Maps. We'll show you how to get your maps mashup crawled and indexed and how best to optimize your content for user discovery via search. Read more.
11:45am Wednesday, 05/14/2008
Google Maps = Google on Maps
Location: Salon A-F
Lior Ron (Google, Inc. )
Google Maps is evolving from a driving directions and business search tool, to a comprehensive representation of all the world's information, on a map. Join Lior Ron, Product Manager for Google Maps & Earth as he explores new ways for users and content publishers to create and discover this new world. Read more.

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