{"id":11906,"date":"2011-12-14T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:22:42","slug":"the-growth-of-google-places-claimed-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/the-growth-of-google-places-claimed-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growth of Google Places Claimed Listings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a year ago April that Google made<\/a> the first public announcement regarding the number of claimed Places listing. The number came in at 4 million worldwide. Yesterday at the BIA\/Kelsey ILM West conference, Jeff Aguero noted<\/a> that Google Places now has 8 million claimed Place Pages (out of 50MM worldwide). It was just this past March that Marissa Mayer, speaking at SwSX,\u00a0noted<\/a> that there were 6 million claimed Places.<\/p>\n

The ability to claim a business listing was first rolled<\/a> out in March of 2005 with the launch of Dashboard precursor, the Google Local Business Center. These four data points allow for some interesting analysis of the “run rate” at which Google is creating a direct relationship with business locations worldwide.<\/p>\n

Here is a chart showing the growth since inception (U.S. data is estimated).
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Some thoughts about the graph:
\n<\/p>\n