Comments on: A Very Strange Google Local Result(s)

By: Weekly Search & Social News: 05/18/2010 | Search Engine Journal

Weekly Search & Social News: 05/18/2010 | Search Engine Journal — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:40:08 +0000

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By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 11, 2010

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 11, 2010 — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:58:34 +0000

[...] A Very Strange Google Local Result(s), Mike Blumenthal [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:00:46 +0000

I dont agree with this at all. It will make things messier and messier. A multiplication of listings for the same place CANNOT be a good thing.

Moreover, the algorythm of Google Local in the UK has changed just a few days ago. A lot of businesses now register their keyword rich URL as the primary business name, and while this has been taken care of by google in the past, it is now being allowed:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=colonic+irrigation+london&aq=f&aqi=g8g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

What next? I cannot believe Google cannot organise their Google Local results in a proper way. I would rather pay and have a proper listing than have to deal with such a mess.

By: Taylor Cimala

Taylor Cimala — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:28:44 +0000

Amazingly in the tiny town of Chicago, Google finds it’s own office address instead of mine.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:51:27 +0000

@Stever

That could be I would make the “perfect” employee, I never follow instructions and I always do what I want.

By: Stever

Stever — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:45:36 +0000

In Google’s world of “launch now, fix details later” this may be that sign that they are about to actually hire you

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:37:14 +0000

@David
You are no help!

@Daniel
I will note that to my wife. It is a great perspective (probably not true but useful none the less). Although I doubt that I will find much sympathy.

@Reuben
Thanks

@Jim
See Daniel’s comment above…

By: Jim Rudnick

Jim Rudnick — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:08:49 +0000

gosh…and I just read and clicked and went to google.com and google.ca to look at how my own serps looked…

sigh….spot-on Mike & Mike’s Missus too!

too too much time abounds, eh!

Jim

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:03:27 +0000

We do not really have too much time, we just manage to fit it in somehow.

By: Reuben Yau

Reuben Yau — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:37:03 +0000

Hi Mike

I came across a similar issue in 2007 for Google Pittsburgh PA