Tag: Local Search

Facebook Discusses Ranking Graph Search Results
About a month ago, Facebook finally added the ability...
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Google Adds Local To Google Shopping, Product Listing Ads
Google announced on Monday that it has begun rolling out a couple new features for Google Shopping with an emphasis on local merchants. These would be local storefronts and local a...
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Yahoo Continues Product Refreshes With New Yahoo Maps
Yahoo continues to launch redesigns for many of its products. Today it's Yahoo Maps. T...
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Foursquare Now Lets You Search by Specific Foods in Your Area
Foursquare has just made another small step in their push to challenge Yelp, Google Places, and other local search and discovery apps. Starting today, Foursquare users can now sear...
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Google Launches New Zagat (Desktop, Android, iOS)
Google announced the launch of a new Zagat experience across the website and Android and iOS apps. Included is free access to its "trusted" Zagat ratings and reviews without regist...
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The Ones That Make Your Business Look Good In Google’s Local Results
Back in January, Google revealed that Google Business Photos were being used by...
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Google Launches New Business Photos For 167 NYC Restaurants Ahead Of Restaurant Week
Google announced today that it is launching 360-degree, interactive photos for 167 of the 294 restaurants participating in NYC Restaurant Week (next week). Google Maps summer i...
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Google Adds Knowledge Graph-Like Carousel For Local Results
Google announced today that it is adding a new carousel feature for local search results on the top of some search results pages. It looks essentially like the recently redesigned...
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Blekko Launches Izik For Smartphones, Adds Local Search Feature
Blekko has just launched a new smartphone version of its mobile search product izik, which until now was only for iPad and Android tablets. The app, now available in Apple's A...
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Yelp Now Uses More Data For ‘Nearby’ Suggestions
Yelp has made some changes to its Nearby feature to make it more useful and show suggestions for places that are near you. Suggestions are based not only on location, but also on p...
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Google Adds New Business Owner Link On Local Results
Google has added a new link to manage local business listings to search results pages on the right-hand side. Google's Jade Wang...
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Yelp: Consumers, On Average, Can Rely On Our Content
At the LeWeb conference in London this week, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman took to the stage to discuss his business with host Loic Le Meur. Inevitably, the topic of fake reviews and...
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Foursquare Adds More Menus, Continues to Become a Better Tool for Local Search & Discovery
Over the past year or so, Foursquare has been going through a major transformation - well, at least a major improvement. What they've been doing is making both small and large twea...
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Google Talks Online Reviews For Ten Minutes
As part of the "Friday 15" series for small business owners, Google has shared a video discussing the importance of online reviews. It features Whitney Lemon from Google's' "Ge...
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Google Now Makes Anonymous Negative Reviews More Visible
Google made local business pages (and the reviews contained within) a lot more visible this week, with the launch of Google Now for the iPhone and iPad. That includes negative revi...
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