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Google Confirms & Talks About Expanded Local Results
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing —
In a blog post today, Google confirms what we and others reported last week — they’re now showing local results on non-local queries . Google says they’re guessing the searcher’s location, “in most cases” by using your IP address. As I pointed out last week, this isn’t always the most accurate solution. And, as Greg Sterling pointed out , Google will eventually replace IP-targeting with improved triangulation/GPS right in the web browser/device you’re using. Meanwhile, Google Software Engineer Jim Muller replied to the questions we emailed last week when I ...
Google Expands Local Search
Search Engine Journal —
... How does Google Search do this? The Official Google Blog says, it guesses your location using user’s IP address. It matches this IP address to a broad geographical location and then selects the search results specific to the matched geographic location. ...
Google Goes Hyper-Local
Website Magazine —
One of the major issues that local search has had in the past is that "local" really meant "local as defined by the user" - until now. Google has made a major advancement in local search and essentially integrated some basic IP intelligence into local search. Google has already rolled out the new local search results which will appear on a Google Map even if you don't type in a specific geographic location along with a keyword query (such as Chicago Thai food). This is a major development for those websites that rely on local traffic. Google is matching user IP address to a ...
Google Goes Public with New Local Approach
Screenwerk —
... I’m late in blogging this today but Google officially acknowledged, after about a week of discussions on blogs, that it was showing local listings for queries without geographic modifiers: ...
Local results, even when you're not logged in
Googling Google —
... Today Google announced on their blog that they are now serving up local results for terms that aren’t necessarily “local” in nature. The new feature has been rolled out to all users world-wide. You don’t even have to be logged in to a Google account to get local results now — which some people might find disturbing. Previously, if you wanted local results, you had to search for something like “pizza in seattle”. Now, searching for something like “photographers” or “pizza” without any type of location modifier now shows you local results. How does Google figure out where you ...
Now Google Thinks It’s a GPS
Blippitt —
... Google thinks it knows what you want, so it’s going to use your IP address to guess your location and display local business results for your search term on a map.
So now they want your medical records, they already HAVE your prescription history, and now they’re going to tell you what you want as well.
“In most cases, we match your IP address to a broad geographical location. You can also specify your likely location using the ‘Change location’ link on the top right corner, above the map. ...
I risultati di Google diventano più locali
Motoricerca —
... Google ha deciso di rendere più visibili i risultati locali anche quando l’utente effettua query generiche, come ad esempio: ristoranti, pizzerie, bar, idraulici …etc… ...
Google this is terrible, please stop showing local results
Blogstorm SEO blog —
The rollout of Google Local results in the main search results for non-local queries is now official, according to the Google Blog.
Unfortunately Google seems to be very poor at IP delivery so most people I’ve spoken to are being shown results for London.
One of the reasons Google has so much market share in the UK is because Google.co.uk was so much better at delivering UK results than MSN.co.uk and Yahoo.co.uk. What Google doesn’t seem to understand is that showing London targeted results to somebody in Leeds is just the same as ...
Personalisierung: Maps Onebox erkennt euren Standort
GoogleWatchBlog —
... eventuell die lokale Suche erstmals kennenlernt. Die Google Maps werden dadurch sicherlich deutlich mehr Traffic bekommen. Andererseits kann die Suchmaschine durch die fehlende Ortsangabe nicht mehr bestimmen ob jetzt wirklich lokal gesucht werden soll oder nicht. Nicht jeder der nach "Pizza" sucht möchte eine Liste von Pizzerien sehen...
Im Januar 2008 wurde die Anzahl der Ergebnisse übrigens von 3 auf 10 erhöht.
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Google Gets Generic on Local Web Search Queries
Search Engine Roundtable —
The Google blog announced that Google is now showing more local results in web search for more generic queries. This is something that was noticed ...
