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This is very useful. I'm going to pass it along and see if I can get some feedback if it works.
"Looking for a coffee shop near you? Try Google Local."
[local.google.com...]
Anyone know how the "Google Local" functions, i.e. where is it pulling these listings from and how? Spent some time searching on it and boy did I find it confusing?
It is a pretty significant development for anyone driving traffic on a national basis and then turning that into localized referrals.
Not ready for prime time yet.
That must be one busy plumber. The only guy for a city close to a half million and he has a half hour commute.
A check of a few categories in my local area generated laughable results. Local residents will only need to scan the results once to see that it is of little practical use...yet.
Glad to see it tho - I'm sure G will work the bugs out.
Local search somewhat feeds off data from regular web sites, which is pretty cool. Actually , it probably not that hard to do, beacause, once a name has been located, the code probably just looks for address type strings right after the name.
still, hopefully the google bot is going to start understand what sites are all about
Tim Hortons (it is Canadian after all!)
Not anymore it isn't. Timmy's got bought out by Wendy's a few years ago.
And now Target is trying to buy the Bay.
I could comment on this, but the TOS would block my choice of words.
I think it was more of a merger. The owners of Tims now are shareholders in Wendys. I beveive I read recently that the Timmys unit is way more profitable than the Wendys unit.
