{"id":17625,"date":"2014-12-22T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2014-12-23T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:36:11","slug":"pigeon-rolls-out-in-uk-australia-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/pigeon-rolls-out-in-uk-australia-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon Rolls Out in UK, Australia and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong>: Barry reports<\/a> that it is still rolling out to all English speaking countries except India (thus Indian tech support will not see what you see.)<\/p>\n

After a week of rumors<\/a> and spottings<\/a>, Google has confirmed<\/a> that Pigeon has rolled out across UK, Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n

What to expect for those of you in those countries? Much of what we experienced here several months ago<\/p>\n

    A total reshuffling of the Pack results<\/ol>\n

    Narrowing radius around the search area<\/p>\n

    Crappy results<\/a> including a lot of bogus One Boxes and too much emphasis on company name in the packs<\/p>\n

    Spam being highlighted in the search results<\/p>\n

    In the US, there was also a drastic drop in Real Estate 7 Packs<\/p>\n

    Fewer 7 Packs, more 3 Packs<\/p>\n

    We have seen in the US a certain rebound as well. Manny of the radius, which were very small to start have increased. Bad quality listings have started to disappear and the quality has slowly, slowly improved.<\/p>\n

    Get ready to use the report a problem button a lot in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n

    Example search “Mobile Phone Repair Southampton<\/a>”
    \nHere is a before<\/p>\n

    \"before\"<\/a>And after (still visible from Germany for example)
    \n    <\/a>\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

    Notice in the after the predilection of companies that have the word repair in their name over companies that actually do iPhone repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Update: Barry reports that it is still rolling out to all English speaking countries except India (thus Indian tech support will not see what you see.) After a week of rumors and spottings, Google has confirmed that Pigeon has rolled out across UK, Canada and Australia. What to expect for those of you in those …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625","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=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}