{"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. 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