Comments on: Google Adds Mirror Dice to G+ Local Pages

By: Travis Van Slooten

Travis Van Slooten — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:31:25 +0000

I concur with everyone’s thoughts here…seems like a pointless feature. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets nixed in the near future after Google realizes nobody uses it.

Travis Van Slooten

By: Matt Gregory

Matt Gregory — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:08:15 +0000

Could not agree more with what has already been mentioned, the list of problems is way too long to add features like this.

Pinging off of more interesting conversations… @Mr. Shotland and @Mr. Blumenthal – the ‘Black Ice’ Pine Tree Car Air Freshener is my favorite!

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:35:14 +0000

@Miriam

The list is long… lets start with the bugs in the merging process, the fact that the Dashboard doesn’t allow uploading videos and it takes forever for changes to appear, the fact that stats don’t really work, that there is no way for +Pages for local to really work for multilocation businesses…. cripe the list of things more important that this is very, very, very long.

And, as Dan points out, if they are going to add a new feature add one that offers some significant value.

By: Dan Austin

Dan Austin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:49:28 +0000

I like it, but…How come there isn’t a dead simple way to add starred locations to Google Contacts? Shouldn’t I be able to star something, and see it in my Google Maps Starred location folder on the Gmail Contacts? If I’m able to add all this info. in the private contact details, why isn’t it already filled out for me (like the company name, etc.)? Why can’t these contacts sync with the Google+Local page so that the contact details always stay up-to-date as soon as the business owner changes them (for example, hours, etc.), and are easily exportable in a vCard format?

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:06:13 +0000

Kerry states above that this could be used in the case of employees you like….I’m afraid I see a future of nasty nicknames for employees you don’t like. Mike, I agree, the beautiful purpose of this is eluding me. I would kinda rather Google fix the issue with putting U.S. suite numbers at the front of street addresses (hey, we’re not Canadians, eh?) before adding fuzzy dice.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:08:24 +0000

@Frank
Google has gotten quite good at ferreting out call center based listings and removing them from the index. They likely use a combination of techniques including the “secret shopper” mode.

By: Frank Perez

Frank Perez — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:49:12 +0000

@Andy, Your comment made me LOL but then again i’m thinking to myself..Geez he may be right because every since late May and early June Google seems to keep pushing the important stuff back ( ”dropped Listings” & Service Area Changes. ) Iv’e had multiple listings go down that all go by the quality guidelines to a T. I also have some clients, Towing Companies, and Google determined that those companies were all linked and have Call Centers but they did in fact have different numbers for EACH location & Different Business Name. Below is an E Mail i got from The Google Team. How can they determine this?

Greetings,

Thank you for your response.

After performing quality checks and calls to each number listed for your business we have determined that your listings are ineligible, as previously mentioned these are listings for the same business at locations managed by a call center.

I’m here to help with your listing problems; other questions related to ** policy issues, and best practices can be discussed in our forums, in addition to being addressed in our Help Center.

Please do check out the forum, where you can discuss questions like yours with other business owners as well as product experts and top contributors: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/business

Thank you for your time.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:49:44 +0000

@andrew
I don’t know what you have against the pine tree freshener. They saved my butt numerous times as a child.

By: Andrew Shotland

Andrew Shotland — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:26:01 +0000

On behalf of the Mirror Dice manufacturers of America, I demand an apology for equating our quality product with this Google crap. Next time pick on the Pine Tree Car Air Freshener…

By: Andy Kuiper

Andy Kuiper — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:07:46 +0000

LOL – someone at G+ Local must have caught everyone napping in a meeting… “hey guys, I have this great idea for a G+ Local “add on”… k, everybody cool with this? ok, I’m just going to install this thingy and see how it goes”