{"id":1473,"date":"2008-11-11T06:33:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2008-11-10T17:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:32:50","slug":"goog-411-updated-to-single-search-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/goog-411-updated-to-single-search-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Goog-411 updated to &#8220;single search box&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/goog411\/\">Goog-411<\/a>, Google&#8217;s voice driven 411 directory assistance that uses the same business listings and rankings as Google Maps, has recently been upgraded to only require a single business + city search phrase. This upgrade mirrors the late \u00a0July <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/google-maps-update-moves-to-single-box-search-field\/\">blue line upgrade<\/a> to Maps that moved Maps from a two field entry (one each for business and location) to a single single search box like the main Google search page.<\/p>\n<p>Goog-411 now starts the search with the phrase: <em>Say the business and the city and state<\/em>&#8230;If that query is not understood the service reverts back to the requirement to entry first <em>say just the city and state. <\/em>Once that query is answered it then notes:<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>What business name or category?. <\/em>While it is not noted the user can still ask for category + city during the first query combined query.<\/p>\n<p>When on the road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goog-411, Google&#8217;s voice driven 411 directory assistance that uses the same business listings and rankings as Google Maps, has recently been upgraded to only require a single business + city search phrase. This upgrade mirrors the late \u00a0July blue line upgrade to Maps that moved Maps from a two field entry (one each for business &#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-1473","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\/1473","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=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}