{"id":20313,"date":"2017-03-04T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=20313"},"modified":"2017-03-04T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:58:39","slug":"desktop-click-to-call-via-hangouts-from-the-local-finder-kp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/desktop-click-to-call-via-hangouts-from-the-local-finder-kp\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Click to Call via Hangouts from the Local Finder &#038; KP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-knowledge-graph-adds-phone-numbers-hangout-integration-194486\">ability<\/a> to dial phone that presented itself in Google search has <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+googleplus\/posts\/1MwuiVyyMX3\">been around<\/a> since 2014. <\/p>\n<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/google-adding-desktop-hangout-calling-to-knowledge-panel-in-search-local-finder\/\">tests<\/a> of it in 2015 in the Local KP. At the time, it was obviously visible to some and not others.  <\/p>\n<p>That being said I had not seen it broadly integrated into the Local Finder before. Could be I am just blind and its been there forever but since it new(s) to me, I am documenting it. One more data point that Google can collect to learn how customers interact with your business; call length and other meta data. While the convo itself is encrypted I am sure that Google extracts other data points as well. <\/p>\n<p>When you click on a phone number from within the Local Finder or the Knowledge Panel on the desktop, I now regularly get shunted to Google Hangouts for call completion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hangout-from-desktop.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hangout-from-desktop-300x158.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to dial phone that presented itself in Google search has been around since 2014. I saw tests of it in 2015 in the Local KP. At the time, it was obviously visible to some and not others. That being said I had not seen it broadly integrated into the Local Finder before. Could &#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-20313","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\/20313","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=20313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20315,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions\/20315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}