{"id":9383,"date":"2011-02-25T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2011-02-25T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:38:23","slug":"google-places-mobile-option-to-only-show-open-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/google-places-mobile-option-to-only-show-open-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Mobile Option to Only Show Open Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Places Search on the iPhone and Android now <a href=\"http:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/finding-right-place-when-you-need-it.html\">offers<\/a> an option to show only business that are open. The feature is available in Places search and filters out not just restaurants that are closed but restaurants for which Google is not confident of their hours. I performed the following search yesterday afternoon for Restaurant Spokane:<\/p>\n<p>All Places:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/all-places.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9394\" title=\"all-places\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/all-places.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/all-places.png 640w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/all-places-133x200.png 133w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/all-places-400x600.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only Open Places option selected:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/open-places1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9391\" title=\"open-places\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/open-places1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/open-places1.png 640w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/open-places1-133x200.png 133w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/open-places1-400x600.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>It is not totally obvious from the screen shot but the ranking was significantly altered when the top two Places listing completely disappeared. Not because they were actually closed but because the listings were not claimed and Google had been unable to find their hours elsewhere on the net.<\/p>\n<p>Bing recently noted while presenting at the GetListed Portland seminar that 50% of all restaurant queries are now originating on mobile phones. If that fact and this feature is not enough to motivate business owners to claim their listing and populate it with accurate information, I am not sure what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Places Search on the iPhone and Android now offers an option to show only business that are open. The feature is available in Places search and filters out not just restaurants that are closed but restaurants for which Google is not confident of their hours. I performed the following search yesterday afternoon for Restaurant &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383","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=9383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9383\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}