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Google to Charge for Heavy Google Maps Usage on Sites

You only have to worry about it if your site's Maps link gets more than 25,000 hits.
Posted on November 2, 2011 by Christina DesMarais
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Heavy users of Google Maps will be charged for using the service, reports BBC News. After January 1, Google will charge for the Google Maps API when more than 25,000 map “hits” are made in a day.

Many Web sites use Google Maps to give users a view of the destinations they inquire about.

Google, for its part, says the change will only affect 0.35% of users.

If you use Google Maps on your Web site and you’re concerned how the limit enforcement will affect you, Search Engine Roundtable says you have a few options:

Read more at BBC News and Search Engine RoundTable.

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    As google has announced many new application these days for attracting the new users and in beginning days free for usage. And with that google announced charge on using map application which highly used by people. So does this mean that google tries to recover the other new application amount through the map application. And can we assume that in future when new business application usage more and more , then google will charged it? So can we think that google first do planning for making their product more known and make the people rely on it and then when done this successfully then charged it. What a thinking google has really!