{"id":18128,"date":"2015-05-24T10:26:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18128"},"modified":"2015-05-24T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:26:33","slug":"google-location-results-still-screwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/google-location-results-still-screwy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Location Results Still Screwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18129\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/location-missing-263x200.png\" alt=\"location-missing\" width=\"263\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/location-missing-263x200.png 263w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/location-missing.png 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/>Starting late last week we <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mblumenthal\/status\/601468792447741953\">saw<\/a> weirdnesses in using the location setting option in Google organic search.<\/p>\n<p>Initially it was throwing off errors that it could not recognize cities like New York and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>That error disappeared and you could change the location. However weird results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uksbd.co.uk\/google-search-tools-location-settings-broken\/\">started<\/a> cropping up\u00a0with the local pack results reflecting the new location setting but the organic listings reflecting Google&#8217;s understanding of your browser location regardless of the location settings. Here is a Google + discussion joined by John Meuller that looked at the issue:\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+TerrySimmonds\/posts\/1BZ6guvy9mE\">Have Google switched off location settings in Search Tools?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cleveland-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18130\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cleveland-cropped.png\" alt=\"cleveland-cropped\" width=\"520\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cleveland-cropped.png 574w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cleveland-cropped-111x200.png 111w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cleveland-cropped-332x600.png 332w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cleveland-cropped-566x1024.png 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting late last week we saw weirdnesses in using the location setting option in Google organic search. 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