Comments on: Google Goes Hyper Local: New Format for Local Map Listings

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By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:28:53 +0000

It’s interesting that this does not happen in Google Maps, though. When I type in “pizza,” the first three results are from Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago. Even if my IP address is not based in Denver, that still does not make sense. Those cities are so far away from each other. It’s very curious.

By: Brent Nau

Brent Nau — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:49:26 +0000

Erik – Nice find. We just started to notice this the past week that several of our clients were showing traffic for some very broad terms (even for a fairly new site). Now with the shift in IP based being in the local search is now even more important!