{"id":16057,"date":"2014-01-29T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16057"},"modified":"2014-01-29T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:32:57","slug":"google-adds-dates-to-hotel-local-carousel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/google-adds-dates-to-hotel-local-carousel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Adds Dates to Hotel Local Carousel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Schwartz <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-showing-date-selector-knowledge-graph-carousel-hotels-182756\">reported<\/a> \u00a0on SEL this am that Google was now allowing dates of stay to be set directly on the carousel. When updated, Google updates the results for their hotel finder immediately below the ads.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I have <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/googles-local-carousel-trapped-in-googles-world\/\">covered<\/a> this topic before but it is striking even on my fairly large display that Google 1) makes only one general search result visible in this display and 2)virtually every link goes back to Google.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16058\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hotels-buffalo-ny-Google-Search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16058\" alt=\"Click to view at full size\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hotels-buffalo-ny-Google-Search-520x325.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hotels-buffalo-ny-Google-Search-520x325.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hotels-buffalo-ny-Google-Search-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hotels-buffalo-ny-Google-Search-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hotels-buffalo-ny-Google-Search.png 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to view at full size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Schwartz reported \u00a0on SEL this am that Google was now allowing dates of stay to be set directly on the carousel. 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