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For anyone looking to easily pop a Google Map into their CakePHP App, you've found the right spot.

For simple GeoCoding and simple results grab this component to make your life just that much easier.
The non-component class is located at http://bearsontherun.com/googlegeo, which can be used as a vendor.

Use this helper to add a GoogleMap to your application. For a tutorial on how to use it, check out http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/186.

This is a wonderful component that will retrieve the latitude and longitude of any given address.

A couple of weeks ago, I was building an event management system which required that people be able to search events near them. I found several existing solutions, but none that I could integrate as easily as a proper Cake extension.

needed this for a soccer site i'm developing, really easy to use. tested it with 200,500,700 chars, works fast with 200, less fast with 500 and 700, on 700+ you might get php timeout of 30 sec, but you can set this setting on the fly.

This is a pretty simple component for retrieving your Google Custom Search Engine results and returning them to cake wrapped in an array. This will only work for a Business account which grants you access to the custom search api. Usage is quite simple, add the component to your controller and pass the search term to the run_search() method.

Google Page Ranking is being used less and less, but it's still out there and offered by accessing google's servers. When talking about Search Engine Optimization the main items to look at are Trust and Authority, however Google/Yahoo/Bing are not releasing the ability to get that information yet. Page Rank will just have to do for the time being.