{"id":319,"date":"2007-12-18T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/google-maps-vs-yahoo-local-smackdown-from-a-programmers-perspective\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T00:57:41","slug":"google-maps-vs-yahoo-local-smackdown-from-a-programmers-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/google-maps-vs-yahoo-local-smackdown-from-a-programmers-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Vs. Yahoo Local Smackdown from a programmer&#8217;s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting conversation with a programmer whom I respect this morning who was looking at Yahoo Local and Google Maps business listings (in an industry that presumably has nearly 100% website penetration). He pointed out the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Google and Yahoo seem to have almost the same name\/address\/phone info<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 But Google has much better abstracts and web pages (i.e. web site url).<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Google has about 80-90% of its business listings associated with web pages,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Whereas Yahoo has 52% of its business listings associated with web pages<\/p>\n<p>I have found Yahoo Local&#8217;s ranking algo to be simpler than Google&#8217;s but it appears that there is more difference in the backend than just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting conversation with a programmer whom I respect this morning who was looking at Yahoo Local and Google Maps business listings (in an industry that presumably has nearly 100% website penetration). He pointed out the following: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Google and Yahoo seem to have almost the same name\/address\/phone info \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 But Google has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-yahoo-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}