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	<title>Comments on: Google Places Pages Upgraded &#8211; Owner Verified Checkmark and More Sentiment Details Now Show</title>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yelp won&#039;t go anywhere for a while. You&#039;re right that Google pretty much offers everything but Yelp more specialized.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yelp won&#8217;t go anywhere for a while. You&#8217;re right that Google pretty much offers everything but Yelp more specialized.</p>
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		<title>By: How to Get Your Places Pages URL in Google Maps &#124; The Expand2Web Blog</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-458041</link>
		<dc:creator>How to Get Your Places Pages URL in Google Maps &#124; The Expand2Web Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 28, 2010 &#183; 0 comments   Last year Google introduced Places Pages, which is an expanded profile for your small business in the Google Maps search [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 28, 2010 &middot; 0 comments   Last year Google introduced Places Pages, which is an expanded profile for your small business in the Google Maps search [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Google Maps: Now Adding Reviews from News Sites, Hyperlocal Blogs and Other Non Traditional Review Sources &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-455811</link>
		<dc:creator>Google Maps: Now Adding Reviews from News Sites, Hyperlocal Blogs and Other Non Traditional Review Sources &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] their newly implemented sentiment analysis, Google Maps is apparently now reaching across hyperlocal blogs, local portals and news sites and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] their newly implemented sentiment analysis, Google Maps is apparently now reaching across hyperlocal blogs, local portals and news sites and [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Lo</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-454203</link>
		<dc:creator>Lo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seems like Google is a Yellowpages as well now. I think Yelp will be going down!

- Lo</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems like Google is a Yellowpages as well now. I think Yelp will be going down!</p>
<p>- Lo</p>
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		<title>By: Verify Your Place Page in Google&#8217;s Local Search Results @ WebNG Blog</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-452443</link>
		<dc:creator>Verify Your Place Page in Google&#8217;s Local Search Results @ WebNG Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] hat tip goes to Mike Blumenthal for pointing out the changes to Place [...]</description>
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		<title>By: john j</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-451115</link>
		<dc:creator>john j</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think its good to have a owner verified ad. It helps add credibility to the business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think its good to have a owner verified ad. It helps add credibility to the business.</p>
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		<title>By: Google Maps Sentiment Analysis; Foreign Speakers Need Not Apply? &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-450822</link>
		<dc:creator>Google Maps Sentiment Analysis; Foreign Speakers Need Not Apply? &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Keonda has pointed out on my post about Google Maps newly instituted sentiment analysis feature that Google is now showing [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Keonda</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/12/15/google-places-pages-upgraded-owner-verified-checkmark-and-more-sentiment-details-now-show/comment-page-1/#comment-450796</link>
		<dc:creator>Keonda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s interesting to note that the sentiment analysis is only displayed in english today in non english-speaking countries. 

Check these &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.fr/places/fr/paris/avenue-franklin-delano-roosevelt/17/-restaurant-lasserre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Paris &lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.es/maps/place?cid=18057895167961859670&amp;q=el+bulli&amp;hl=es&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=src:pplink,view:map&amp;ei=LWAvS9H-FpK6jAe334mCCQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Barcelona &lt;/a&gt;  restaurants (I&#039;ve accessed both listings in their original language). Information is aggregated from english sources: zagat, tripadvisor, trustedplaces... Google might still have dificulties in replicating the sentiment analysis from other languages.

What&#039;s more, the upgrade resulted in a new bug. &#039;details&#039; section (informations détaillées) for the Paris restaurant are now in english whereas they&#039;re still in spanish for the Barcelona listing (detalles).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that the sentiment analysis is only displayed in english today in non english-speaking countries. </p>
<p>Check these <a href="http://maps.google.fr/places/fr/paris/avenue-franklin-delano-roosevelt/17/-restaurant-lasserre" rel="nofollow"> Paris </a> and <a href="http://maps.google.es/maps/place?cid=18057895167961859670&amp;q=el+bulli&amp;hl=es&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=src:pplink,view:map&amp;ei=LWAvS9H-FpK6jAe334mCCQ" rel="nofollow"> Barcelona </a>  restaurants (I&#8217;ve accessed both listings in their original language). Information is aggregated from english sources: zagat, tripadvisor, trustedplaces&#8230; Google might still have dificulties in replicating the sentiment analysis from other languages.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s more, the upgrade resulted in a new bug. &#8216;details&#8217; section (informations détaillées) for the Paris restaurant are now in english whereas they&#8217;re still in spanish for the Barcelona listing (detalles).</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In additional to helping the consumers choose a business, we find that it also helps a business determine and improve problem areas which better serves the consumer.  What becomes interesting are tracking historical trends to see these improvements.  I would hope that the Google analytics incorporates these trends as well.

A correction about demandforce.com.  Business owners are allowed to dispute reviews under the same guidelines as Google&#039;s review policy (profanity, personal details, etc) but there is no filtering mechanism that eliminates bad reviews. The reason Demandforce has so many reviews is they are submitted from actual consumer visits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In additional to helping the consumers choose a business, we find that it also helps a business determine and improve problem areas which better serves the consumer.  What becomes interesting are tracking historical trends to see these improvements.  I would hope that the Google analytics incorporates these trends as well.</p>
<p>A correction about demandforce.com.  Business owners are allowed to dispute reviews under the same guidelines as Google&#8217;s review policy (profanity, personal details, etc) but there is no filtering mechanism that eliminates bad reviews. The reason Demandforce has so many reviews is they are submitted from actual consumer visits.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Bill

Yes they a nice job with the layout. It is interesting how dynamic of a result that it produces. I wonder why sometimes it is located higher up the page and other times lower.

@Collin

While the Beef is not in Barrels (the draft brew is), the Beef is available in very large quantities throughout the restaurant. They have 3 beef cutting stations where a large standing rib roast sits that they cut huge piles of thin slices from to order for their signature &quot;dish&quot;: Roast Beef on Kummelwick.... it is a German originated sandwich from Buffalo ... fresh baked hard roll, covered with salt and caraway seeds, dipped au juice and stacked high with fresh cut beef cooked to order....a veritable but delicious heart attack to order.

@Mike Ramsey

I think you are correct and that this is the beginning of improved &quot;sentiment&quot; search. 

I do think however that Google has been using some sort of sentiment analysis in search results for a while as explempified by this search: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=dirty+restaurants+la+ca&amp;btnG=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dirty restaurant LA CA&lt;/a&gt;.

Here are some other interesting examples that all returned local results as Local Universal results on the SERPS&quot;
- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=low+priced+restaurants+la+ca&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Low Priced Restaurants La CA&lt;/a&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=large+portion+restaurants+ny+ny&amp;aq=o&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Large Portion Restaurants NY NY&lt;/a&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;q=great+ambiance+and+cheap+restaurants+ny+ny&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Great Ambiance and Cheap Restaurants NY NY&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Bill</p>
<p>Yes they a nice job with the layout. It is interesting how dynamic of a result that it produces. I wonder why sometimes it is located higher up the page and other times lower.</p>
<p>@Collin</p>
<p>While the Beef is not in Barrels (the draft brew is), the Beef is available in very large quantities throughout the restaurant. They have 3 beef cutting stations where a large standing rib roast sits that they cut huge piles of thin slices from to order for their signature &#8220;dish&#8221;: Roast Beef on Kummelwick&#8230;. it is a German originated sandwich from Buffalo &#8230; fresh baked hard roll, covered with salt and caraway seeds, dipped au juice and stacked high with fresh cut beef cooked to order&#8230;.a veritable but delicious heart attack to order.</p>
<p>@Mike Ramsey</p>
<p>I think you are correct and that this is the beginning of improved &#8220;sentiment&#8221; search. </p>
<p>I do think however that Google has been using some sort of sentiment analysis in search results for a while as explempified by this search: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=dirty+restaurants+la+ca&#038;btnG=Search">dirty restaurant LA CA</a>.</p>
<p>Here are some other interesting examples that all returned local results as Local Universal results on the SERPS&#8221;<br />
- <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=low+priced+restaurants+la+ca&#038;aq=f&#038;oq=&#038;aqi=">Low Priced Restaurants La CA</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=large+portion+restaurants+ny+ny&#038;aq=o&#038;oq=&#038;aqi=">Large Portion Restaurants NY NY</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;gl=us&#038;q=great+ambiance+and+cheap+restaurants+ny+ny&#038;aq=f&#038;oq=&#038;aqi=">Great Ambiance and Cheap Restaurants NY NY</a></p>
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