What’s New in Local Search – August 2011
Business profiles. While you've been able to create your own blog and/or website on Google for years, it is now touting that it will enable Business profile pages on Google+ at some point. It's not surprising that the Goog is trying to emulate Facebook again, is it? The big question is why do businesses need both a Place page and a Google+ business profile? We'll find out soon.
Business Profiles Update: Google is creating demand for what is essentially an unknown product. It has twice opened up requests to be in the test group for business profiles and both times the response was massive. At the same time, Google is quickly closing down unauthorized profiles for businesses that have already been created. Ho...