I believe deeply in Google Local. I believe that Google Local will, in a few short years from now, overcome and eclipse yellowbook, yellowpages.com, superpages, citysearch, or any other local business directory in print form or on the web. Remember searching with InfoSeek? Google Local is a major shift in local business search; it’s coming [...]

Unofficial town crier for Google, Matt Cutts, yesterday announced on his blog that Google’s "new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days." That’s good news for SEO’ers and webmasters.
Matt added "I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites."
Update: we witnessed a [...]

In April of 2008, Google quietly launched its computer automated free 411 directory assistance product, GOOG-411 (Available at 800-GOOG-411).
The system is entirely computer-automated. Surprisingly, the voice recognition is very accurate. What does Goog-411 offer? Directory assistance of business telephones anywhere in America with one definite difference: the service is entirely free.
The wireless carriers charge between [...]

Google local is bad news for the yellow pages.
Google local enables business owners to rank highly, and with a special entry, in local searches for their products and services.
The benefits of Google Local entries are many-fold:

Google local entries are blended with regular results for most searches.
Google local entries are always presented at the top of [...]

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