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Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
17 years ago3,885 views

Search for: [directions to NY]
http://www.google.com/search?q=directions+to+ny

Also:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+get+to+ny%3F&
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=is+la+close+to+ny%3F

Mike Smith [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

How do you optimize your google local ranking?

Imnotadoctor [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Mike.

I have been wondering the same thing because screw optimizing on just #1 optimize for A B or C!

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Interestingly, these "location reviews" are not much different from what one might expect from the Google Kiosk.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-01-18-n12.html

Just deliver the location reviews from a public kiosk near the location.

Randall [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

Interesting that their three example cities are Cambridge, MA, Pasadena, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA. Some part of me thinks this may not have been entirely coincidental.

Martin [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

If by >>“fair use” snippets & ratings<< you imply that these come from the general Google spider and are processed similar to Google News, I can assure you this is not the case.

Yelp, RestaurantRow and CitySearch are content providers, they actively make these reviews available to Google for integration with Google Maps. I know, because I created just this export for our data at my previous employer (not one of those above).

Google has a quite detailed XML Schema you use to export a XML file with the name, address, phone number, categories, reviews etc. This file is then regulary fetched by a Google spider and used for Google Maps.

BTW: First time I noticed Myspace is exporting their profiles into Google Base. Try http://base.google.com/base/search?q=addicted2salsa

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

This seems like a response to a similar feature that appeared in Ask City at the beginning of December:

http://blog.ask.com/2006/12/askcity_gives_y.html

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