{"id":21190,"date":"2017-09-08T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=21190"},"modified":"2017-09-09T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T21:30:34","slug":"hack-seeing-google-questions-answers-on-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/hack-seeing-google-questions-answers-on-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack: Seeing Google Questions &#038; Answers on the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a management point of view, one of the more annoying attributes of the<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/13\/11-tips-to-optimize-google-q-a\/\"> new Google Questions &amp; Answers<\/a> product is that it is only live on Android via Google Maps and \u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/google-local-questions-answers-rolling-out-to-mobile-browsers\/\">mobile browsers<\/a> on iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p>There <del datetime=\"2017-09-09T15:38:42+00:00\">is a<\/del> are several hacks to allow you to see and respond to this feature via your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the Google Q&amp;A on your desktop by spoofing the browser user agent to an appropriate mobile device. Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/user-agent-switcher-for-c\/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg\">extension for Chrome<\/a> to do just that\u00a0(h\/t to Stan Kolev of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pleper.com\">Pleper<\/a> for the tip).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/user-agent-switcher-for-c\/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg\">Download<\/a> the extension, set it the mobile device and voila&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21192\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09-520x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09-520x171.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09-768x253.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09-1024x338.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09.png 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You now can see and play on your desktop:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.59.33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21191\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.59.33-355x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.59.33-355x600.png 355w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.59.33-118x200.png 118w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.59.33-606x1024.png 606w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.59.33.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-08-16.37.09.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sergey_alakov\/status\/906335562650591235\">noted<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/alakov.com\">Sergey Alakov<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter, you can also use the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/tools\/chrome-devtools\/\">Chrome developer tools<\/a>. This might be an even easier tactic.<\/p>\n<p>From the View Menu<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select <strong>More Tools<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Developer Tools<\/strong> from Chrome&#8217;s Main Menu.<\/li>\n<li>Right-click a page element and select <strong>Inspect<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From there you can <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/tools\/chrome-devtools\/device-mode\/\">toggle the device mode<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21196\" style=\"width: 1067px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21196\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1067\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM.png 1067w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM-290x200.png 290w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM-520x359.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM-768x530.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-09-at-11.34.08-AM-1024x706.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to view larger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a management point of view, one of the more annoying attributes of the new Google Questions &amp; Answers product is that it is only live on Android via Google Maps and \u00a0in mobile browsers on iOS and Android. There is a are several hacks to allow you to see and respond to this feature &#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-21190","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\/21190","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=21190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21198,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions\/21198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}