{"id":19587,"date":"2016-08-02T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=19587"},"modified":"2016-08-02T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:28:13","slug":"google-continues-test-of-horizontal-local-one-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/google-continues-test-of-horizontal-local-one-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Continues Test of Horizontal Local One Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Motola of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandtastic1.com\/frank-motola\/\">Brandastic<\/a>\u00a0shared with me another recent example of Google&#8217;s test of a horizontal Local One Box that sits prominently at the top of the serps rather than to the side.<\/p>\n<p>This test has been reported for several weeks although I have not yet seen it in the wild. It would be one more step towards aligning mobile and desktop results. 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