{"id":146,"date":"2007-03-21T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2007-03-21T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T16:52:09","slug":"now-appearing-at-search-engine-landslocals-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/now-appearing-at-search-engine-landslocals-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Now appearing at Search Engine Lands:Locals Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently started writing a monthly article for\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/guides\/locals_only.php\">Locals Only<\/a> section at <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\">Search Engine Land<\/a>. My <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/070319-124337.php\">first article<\/a> addresses Google&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 role in the area of voice activated\u00c2\u00a0 directory assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Directory assistance with voice recognition and category listings has the ability to permeate the mobile user market place in the near term and could impact local search as much as Google&#8217;s Local Onebox. This technology requires no change in user behavior or user hardware and it really works without the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=93\">advent of more advanced products<\/a>.<br \/>\nGreg Sterling has reported extensively in this area and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/screenwerk\/~3\/103052576\/http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/070319-011951.php\">recent report on an upgrade<\/a> to Jingles\u00c2\u00a0 1-800-Free-411.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently started writing a monthly article for\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0 Locals Only section at Search Engine Land. My first article addresses Google&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 role in the area of voice activated\u00c2\u00a0 directory assistance. Directory assistance with voice recognition and category listings has the ability to permeate the mobile user market place in the near term and could &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}