Google Mobile Search for Local Businesses
This blog entry was posted on January 10, 2010.
Do you need to find the location of the nearest ATM to get some cash? Then find the nearest fast food restaurant to grab a quick bite to eat? Just use your mobile phone and do a quick local search on Google.
If you are searching on your iPhone or Android phone, it is now even easier. This week (Jan 7), Google unveiled a feature called “Near me now.” Clicking on that link will return a list of local points of interest, including restaurants, coffee shops, and bars, as well as banks and ATMs. This is the latest way Google is making local search more convenient.
On other phones you need to go to Google and then select “Local” to search for businesses close to you. This makes it fast and easy to locate local businesses close to where your immediate location.
These Google local results are a combination of Google Local Business Center results that are supplemented with phone directory results from both white and yellow page business listings.
The best results occur for businesses that take the time to complete a free directory listing on Google. It is most best is to have your listing claimed, updated, reviewed. Many smaller local businesses are using this directory listing as a substitute for a business website. These free listings give even the smallest businesses to have an online presence at no cost.
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It amazes me at how local search has expanded. It’s only going to keep on expanding and soon everyone will be running off their phone for numerous types of searches (if they aren’t already).
Comment by Search Marketing Local — January 12, 2010 @ 3:10 pm
Technology is expanding very quickly! It is an exciting time to be in the middle of – searching is a few clicks away! It is getting easier and more accessible by the day!
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