Mike Blumenthal

I just received this email from Netflix. Hmm… lets change, piss everyone off and back off… Dear Michael, It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. This means no change: one …

Nyagoslav of Optilocal was first to highlight this recent Google Places Quality Guideline update: You also can’t create a Places listing for an ongoing service, class, or meeting at a location that you don’t own or have the authority to represent. Please coordinate with your host to have your information displayed on their Place page …

It appears that on certain search results that Related Places, that have been typically showing at the bottom of a business’s Places page, are being moved to the main search results and showing up under “similar pages” results at the bottom of the page. The new results are not widely returned. I was only able …