Mike Blumenthal

Google’s Data Rich Dashboard has always provided tantalizing glimpses of how your business listing is performing at Google. Details enough to get a sense that it is either working or not but not enough to really plan an effective marketing campaign. The biggest complaint has been the lack of detail about searches in the “other” …

Update 5:00 pm: The Google Lat Long Blog has officially announced the rollout of their improved sentiment reporting. They also noted that they have “improved [their] ability to find reviews of places, searching more quality sources of information from across the web”. I have heard reports recently of dramatic jumps in some Place’s review counts. …