Comments on: Google Local Search If They Guess Where You Are

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:00:39 +0000

I think this is a positive change, it makes it easier for small businesses to get traffic from Google without spending thousands on SEO…

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By: medlaw

medlaw — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:46:34 +0000

For one whose target market is national, google’s emphasis on local search might have a negative effective effect. Certain products (such as electronic downloads) are not purchased at the local level. How does google know when local is important to the search and when it is not? Perhaps the local query box you mention is meant to collect data on the issue so that google can better understand when a user wants local search results.

By: Johnn

Johnn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:25:03 +0000

That is working only in few locations.

By: google money system

google money system — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:51:12 +0000

It’s always upsetting when you try to look for something, and the local results show you a completely different city.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:47:00 +0000

i think the search is pinging the local box for items that might be most often searched for with a local fashion, such as pizza.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:09:25 +0000

Thanks for those references, Mike. Dave Rodecker was just pointing out that a block of local results was embedded usually about position 4 or so in the Universal Search results. Dev Basu did see that small window offering a local search but it was a first for me when it came up for the pizza search. I was following up on the official Google announcement the previous day that Local Search would be a preferred offering when they deemed it appropriate. Clearly Google is still trying to get its act together on this.

Repeating the search this morning, it no longer shows me the small local search window when searching for pizza. Local results come at position 4 and somewhat surprisingly are for Lasalle, QC, which I left 18 months ago. What on earth can Google be referencing when it attaches that out-of-date location. It certainly does not link to IP.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:43:46 +0000

This was written about by Dev Basu in December of ’08: http://devbasu.com/google-suggest-local-search-keywords-generic-searches/

Dave Rodecker noted something similar in July of 08: http://subscribedlinks.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-everything-is-local-search.html