Mike Blumenthal

*From Geeking with Greg – Google News Personalization Paper while it speaks directly to Google News the overview of personalization is of importance to all search. *From Bill Slawski at Seo by the Sea – Yahoo’s Clickable Map Advertising with Product Inventory Displays

Here are two screen shots comparing the Local OneBox before and after the recent upgrade (first noted by Matt McGee). Something that had escaped my attention was that while the width is the same, to accommodate the additional pins, Google has truncated some of the business names. Note the difference between “The Beefeaters Restaurant” examples.