{"id":12019,"date":"2012-01-12T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=12019"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:13:16","slug":"google-add-plus-to-search-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/google-add-plus-to-search-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Adds Plus to Search Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-search-plus-impact-on-local-limited-so-far-107661\">adding<\/a> Plus content just about every place these days and <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2012\/01\/google-likely-to-face-ftc-complaint-over-search-plus-your-world.html\">folks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/outspokenmedia.com\/social-media\/search-social-children\/\">are<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/1\/10\/2698531\/twitter-google-battle-over-google-plus-search\">none<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/marketingland.com\/twitter-google-wwe-bing-3206\">too<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/marketingland.com\/privacy-watchdog-ftc-needs-to-look-at-googles-search-plus-your-world-3199\">happy<\/a> about it. It seems that they have now added it to the search suggestions as well (this may have been seen perviously but this is the first I had seen it.). Now that&#8217;s annoying&#8230;and it gets more so the more people you follow on Plus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Google-plus-search-suggestions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12024\" title=\"Google-plus-search-suggestions\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Google-plus-search-suggestions-520x314.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Google-plus-search-suggestions-520x314.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Google-plus-search-suggestions-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Google-plus-search-suggestions-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Google-plus-search-suggestions.png 1432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be adding Plus content just about every place these days and folks are none too happy about it. 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