{"id":18834,"date":"2015-11-30T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=18834"},"modified":"2015-12-02T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:30:31","slug":"google-removes-the-location-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/google-removes-the-location-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Removes the Location Setting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chrisd.click\">Chris Desrochers<\/a> created an elegant and simple solution via an <a href=\"http:\/\/marklets.com\/Search%20Google%20By%20Location.aspx\">applet<\/a> using Darren&#8217;s noted parameter. It makes the doing the search relatively painless. Download <a href=\"http:\/\/marklets.com\/Search%20Google%20By%20Location.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Off and on for the past two months, the search location setting as been disappearing for many folks only to come back again. Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niumata.com\">Johnny\u00a0Niumata <\/a>noted it&#8217;s once again missing.<\/p>\n<p>I checked all three browsers (Chrome, Safari and Firefox) on my Mac and it is missing for me as well. I suppose it could be just on the servers we are both using or it could be more widespread.\u00a0Are you seeing it still?<\/p>\n<p>I also noticed that my automatic location setting \u00a0on both my laptop and desktop both improved on Google today as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-30-at-5.00.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18835\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-30-at-5.00.20-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-30 at 5.00.20 PM\" width=\"798\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-30-at-5.00.20-PM.png 798w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-30-at-5.00.20-PM-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-30-at-5.00.20-PM-520x103.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This feature was probably only used by SEOs but if it is gone, it will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update:\u00a0Chris Desrochers created an elegant and simple solution via an applet using Darren&#8217;s noted parameter. It makes the doing the search relatively painless. Download here. Off and on for the past two months, the search location setting as been disappearing for many folks only to come back again. Today Johnny\u00a0Niumata noted it&#8217;s once again missing. &#8230;<\/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-18834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Chris Desrochers created an elegant and simple solution via an applet using Darren&#039;s noted parameter. It makes the doing the search relatively painless. Download here. 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