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I just noticed this tonight, but I haven’t logged onto the old laptop in a while – so I can’t confirm how recent of a development this really is. I am seeing this on both Firefox for my laptop and Safari on my iPad.

When logged into a Google account, search engine results for Twitter and LinkedIn (exact match search) are now also displaying a few small clickable avatars of people in your network, along with a clickable user name link.

Social Results From Twitter

Social Results From LinkedIn

Don’t Type It Wrong Though…

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Google has added another new element to search results recently (to me anyway) by including phone number results for a name search + location.

Notice the links to a map next to each result.  These are currently leading to the address associated with that phone number in Google Maps.

I have also noticed these phone book results being displayed in conjunction with the new authority one boxes… which I hope to write about shortly (tonight hopefully).

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Event Highlights (Afternoon Session)

• Aaron Weiche opens the event with some Mitch Hedberg
• Mike Blumenthal inherits the name “Professor Maps” on Twitter.  Seconds later the professor blows some minds with his demo of Google 411 .  Ed Reese promptly followed with the best tweet of the event:

• An attendee asks Google’s Jeral Poskey about the process for having businesses like domestic abuse shelters removed from Google Maps.  Within a couple hours a tweet from @mapsguide advises the #LocalU crowd via Twitter that the shelter in question had been removed from Google Maps.

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I posted earlier today about the variety of service area options in Google Places and wanted to follow up with a few more observations I came across while tinkering.  It relates to a questions I raised in regards to whether or not it is more advantageous to set a service area radius or to choose “serviceable cities” when inputting your settings in the service area options.

Observation #1

The farthest away one can set their service area radius  is 625 miles.  I have tried this under a few different business listings across a couple different industries and was unable to find any fluctuation here.




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