Comments on: The History of Google and Local Search

By: Hotels Cyprus

Hotels Cyprus — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:34:12 +0000

The term “Search” is now replaced by “Google”. Everybody in earth now saying “google it” instead of “search it”. Google is very much popular now and I can see their latest technologies they are developing and we can really see the future today!!

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:21:10 +0000

Hey you have collected lot of information about Google local Business.. keep it up good one..

By: The Sunday Seven Series

The Sunday Seven Series — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:05:19 +0000

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By: Karen E. Lund

Karen E. Lund — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:07:35 +0000

It’s not just havoc for the search industry; some users (like me) do very little location-based search and, indeed, prefer to search completely independent of any geo-location.

Upwards of 95% of my searches (which used to be on Google but are now increasingly on Blekko) are for information, not location-based goods or services. I want results that are the “best” (most linked-to, highest page rank, etc.) of all English language results on the Internet. I’m actually rather anti-locavore in my information consumption and often prefer a non-US source if a good one is available for the sake of broader perspective. Certainly I would like to see truly global results equally weighted in most of my searches.

I’m not sure how SEO users and marketers view the growth of location-based search, but to me it’s a humongous #fail.