Google+ Local to Replace Places

Google+ beefed up with Zagat, which is now free for all
San Jose Mercury News
Google+ Local is replacing Google Places and offering the crowd-sourced reviews of restaurants and other businesses to users of the Mountain View search giant's social network as well as other features, such as Google Maps.

Google Plus Local: Next step in search engines?
CBS News
She chatted with "CBS This Morning" co-hosts Gayle King and Charlie Rose on the day Google launched Google Plus Local which is, in effect, a location-based social media search engine available on desktops and mobile devices.

CBS News

Google fuels local search with Zagat reviews
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Google today unveiled a tool that promises to make it easier for people on the run to find the perfect restaurant. Google+ Local is available as a tab in Google+ and can be integrated into Google search, and the Google ...

Google to Use Zagat to Refine Local Search
New York Times (blog)
By GLENN COLLINS Eight months later, Google is announcing that Zagat will become the cornerstone of a new free service, Google Plus Local, intended to enhanceGoogle's growing, potentially lucrative local information offerings.

New York Times (blog)

Daily Report: Google to Make Zagat the 'Cornerstone' of Local Search
New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES | May 30, 2012, 9:10 am Comment Google announced Wednesday that it is planning to make Zagat, the restaurant-ratings publisher that it bought last year for $151 million in cash, the centerpiece of a new free service, GooglePlus ...

New York Times (blog)

Google+ Local Does More Than Google Places
InformationWeek
By combining local information with social networking, Google hopes to make Google+ more relevant for users and businesses. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Continuing its effort to augment its services with social capabilities, Google on Wednesday ...

Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Amir Efrati Google said it has seen a noticeable increase in activity on its vaunted Web-searchin the two weeks since the company began one of the biggest search transformations in its history. People doing Web searches now see a big box of ...

Google Dictionary Features Image Search Result For Every Word
Huffington Post
The Google dictionary is no mere picture book, even though it's composed entirely of photos fromGoogle image search. London-based artists Heyes and West crafted the image dictionary from webpage code that pulled the images from the Internet and laid ...

Google adds Zagat reviews to push local search
Turkish Press
Google on Wednesday added the Zagat restaurant review content to its Google+ social network, as it rolled out a new local search feature that takes on services such as Yelp. The Internet giant added a "Local" tab to its Google+ social network to allow ...

Google search usage surges after changes
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY It appears Web surfers have embraced the changesGoogle has made to its popular search engine. Unveiled two weeks ago, the revamped search called Knowledge Graph uses the right side of the screen to display more visual ...

USA TODAY

Google Talks More About Google Places & Google+ Local
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 1 hour ago · Leave a Comment Earlier today, Google announced the launch of Google+ Local, a new social local search experience that will spread across Google+, Google Search and Google's mobile search. It uses Zagat ratings and Google+ ...

Goodbye Google Places, hello more Google Plus
CNN
By Doug Gross, CNN Google Plus Local is the Web giant's latest effort to incorporate its social site into its other products. (CNN) -- Google Places is gone, replaced by a new feature that combines itsGoogle Plus social site and renowned restaurant ...

Meet Google+ Local, Zagat-Fueled Competition for Yelp
The Atlantic
The feature is an effort by Google to capture the local-search market. Google vice president Marissa Mayer told the New York Times that 20 percent of all Google searches are for local information, and that figure shoots up to 40 percent for searches ...

Google finally does something with Zagat, adds reviews with launch of Google+ ...
VentureBeat
The new local search adds restaurant ratings to Google Search, Maps, and as a new tab in Google+. Google will also be updating its Google Maps app for Android and iOS to add in new Google+ Local results. As for the design, you'll notice that Google's...

VentureBeat

Google+ Local Puts Zagat Acquisition to Work
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Google today rolled out an update to Google+ that incorporates the company's September acquisition of Zagat. Google+ Local is the company's newest social integration, and creates "one simple experience across Google," Avni Shah, ...

Google+ Local to Replace Places as Google Makes a Play for More Mobile Ad Dollars
Search Engine Watch
Users can access enhanced local listings via a new Local tab in the left sidebar of Google+, by performing searches on the fly on their mobile (currently supporting Android, iOS coming soon), inGoogle searches, and through Maps.

Google Seeing Increase in Search Activity Following Changes
Marketing Pilgrim
Google has certainly been stirring the search soup as of late with the Penguin update and introduction of the knowledge graph. All in all, it's a good thing that the search giant is not sitting on its hands and waiting for something to happen but ...

Google's revamped search engine sees lots of action
CNET
As the Web giant rolls out its "next generation of search" to provide users with more relevant query results, early indications show that search activity is rising. by Dara Kerr May 29, 2012 9:17 PM PDT Follow @darakerr It's been two weeks since Google ...

Google+ Local combines searches and Zagat reviews for new online venture
The Guardian (blog)
Google+ Local, an online review feature that made its debut Wednesday, appears to be the search giant's in-house version of popular online review sites. Like online review website Yelp, for which Google put up a reported $550m in an unsuccessful bid in ...

The Guardian (blog)

Google Says Knowledge Graph Has Led To More Searches
Search Engine Land
Searches are up in the two weeks since Google launched Knowledge Graph, its database of facts that adds context to a variety of search results. Although the company didn't share specific numbers, Google Fellow Amit Singhal told the Wall Street Journal ...

Search Engine Land

Google+ Local Replaces Google Places, Adds Zagat Rankings
Xconomy
Today Google launched its new Google+ Local service replacing the version of Google Places used by consumers with features that include the rating system developed by its New York-based Zagat subsidiary. The service curates recommendations on places to ...

Google Looks to One-Up Facebook With Google+ Local: A More Social Google ...
Fox Business
The change has been swift: Search Engine Land reports that as of this morning, some 80 millionGoogle Places pages were converted to Google+ Local pages. (Hey- does that mean that Google+ can now say it has 180 million active users?) ...

Microsoft is number one
Ars Technica
by Nate Anderson - May 24, 2012 7:39 pm UTC Who complains loudest about Google linking to infringing content in its search results? The movie and music industries, of course, who absolutely delight in taking whacks at the search engine.

Ars Technica

Google Sending 51% Less Traffic To Facebook Pages Since Launch Of “Search Plus ...
Search Engine Land
This January Google launched “Search Plus Your World (SPYW),” a service that drastically customized search results based on social connections while bolstering visibility of Google+ products. While the new changes absolutely increased visibility for ...

Google sets Zagat free
Reuters Blogs (blog)
By Jennifer Saba This morning, Google took the wraps off how it plans to use Zagat, the popular restaurant guide known for its burgundy pocket books. The Zagat restaurant listings are now incorporated in Google + and its local service and, ...

Reuters Blogs (blog)

Google+ Local Reveals Google's Plan For Zagat
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 2 hours ago · Leave a Comment Google has announced that it's rolling out Google+ Local, which it bills as “a simple way to discover and share local information”. Google is finally revealing just what it's going to do with it's Zagat ...

Google Searches Surge After Knowledge Graph Launch - Search ...
By Danny Goodwin
This has been a big month of changes at search engines, with Bing revamping its results to highlight website snapshots and social data beside its organic results, while Yahoo just rolled out Axis, its attempt at visual search. ... SES Toronto will be packed with sessions covering topics such as pay-per-click (PPC) management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, local, mobile, link building, duplicate content, multiple site issues, video optimization, site ...
Search Engine Watch

Google Dictionary Features Image Search Result For Every Word
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The Google dictionary is no mere picture book, even though it's composed entirely of photos fromGoogle image search. The 1240-page printed volume, created by Felix Heyes and Ben West, features the first Google image result for every ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Google Developing New Dimensions for SEO Methods | DT Blog
By Anum
The feature of Google Panda was introduced last year and its main objective was to remove those websites which had low quality content and which are placed on the front page of its search results. With this up-gradation, various ... However, consulting the officials of Google search engine, it has been revealed that Google is working in creating new algorithms for those websites that are practicing too much of the search engine optimization factors. These websites will be penalized as ...
DT Blog

Google Places Pages Are No More – But What has Changed ...
By Mike Blumenthal
Effectively Google + has become a destination for local search and a shared local experience. And tasks that were accomplished on the Place Page like reviews will happen on Plus instead. This explains the missing review buttons on mobile ...
Understanding Google Places &...

Google gets more local and social with Google+ Local | Tnooz
By Dennis Schaal
Google is making search more local and social by adding a Local tab to Google+ and also integrating information from your social networking friends plus Zagat restaurant and hotel reviews across Google Search, Google Maps and mobile. ... Google's initiative, which had to be in the works for an extended period, follows Bing's integration of social networking feedback into its search results pages a couple of weeks ago. Google, of course, has its own social network, Google+, while ...
Tnooz

Another step on the road to a better search: Google Knowledge Graph
By Todd Vandenbark
Now when you search using Google, it looks at the terms in your search and identifies the things in it. Based on previous searches on your topic, the Google search engine may offer a new box with a collection of “See results about” links ...
EHSLibrary

Hook, Line and Sinker: How to Use Link Bait to Improve Search ...
By John
Quality, organic links bring value and quality to your site, boosting Google's search engine rank for you website. Building backlinks, however, can be a challenge. Thanks to revisions to Google's search engine optimization rankings, ...
Search Engine Optimization -...

Google Video Custom Search integration into a site - Freelancer.com
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Local—now with a dash of Zagat and a sprinkle of ... - Google Blog
By A Googler
It's integrated into Search, Maps and mobile and available as a new tab in Google+—creating one simple experience across Google. Local information integrated across Google From the new “Local” tab on the left-hand side of Google+, you ...
The Official Google Blog

The Anti-Google Search Engine — Slaw
By Omar Ha-Redeye
Google is understandably concerned about losing its market dominance. In December 2011, Microsoft's upstart search engine Bing surpassed Yahoo and become the second most used search engine worldwide. The only way Google can ...
Slaw

Craigslist Won't Let Me Google Search - Dear Rich - Yes
By The Dear Rich Staff
Dear Rich: Craigslist just sent out a bunch of cease and desist notices to people who display Google

results in their sites using Google's 'custom search engine tool' where the results are craigslist listings. Many of these sites (such as my own ...
Dear Rich: Nolo's Intellectual...

Google Panda Update makes search harder | LinkedIn
Google Panda Update makes search harder. ... Google have recently made a big update to theirsearch algorithm, calling this update Google Panda, designed ...
www.linkedin.com/.../Google-Panda-Update-makes-search-28...

Google: Search Activity Rising Following Revamp - Digits - WSJ
Google said it has seen a noticeable increase in activity on its vaunted Web- search in the two weeks since the company began one of the biggest search ...
blogs.wsj.com/.../google-search-engine-surging-following-rev...

Lumia Now Overtakes Droid On Google Search
According to the latest Google search statistics, it appears that the search term ' Lumia' has now overtaken 'Droid' on the Internet giant's search service, reports ...
www.gottabemobile.com/.../lumia-now-overtakes-droid-on-go...

Google Panda Radar & Search engine | Visual.ly
Google's search algorithm "Google Panda" which in turn made ​​many publishers to think seriously regarding to theirs material published and the.
visual.ly/google-panda-radar-search-engine

Google Search app updated… Seriously? Who uses this? | Prjct ...
Why would someone use a discrete app to use Google? For those who are confused about Safari or iOS' integrated search, Google's app has been updated and ...
www.prjctmobile.com/.../google-search-app-updated-seriously...

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