Suggestions For Improving Google Local

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So one of the girls got a flat tire on her bike this week and I needed to get a new inner tube. I fired up google to search for the local bike shop and find the hours so I could go first thing in the morning and here’s what I got:

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I clicked through and got my information. But I said to myself “self … why isn’t this connected to Google local”. So being the curious chap that I am I went to google local and looked

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So Google knows the URL of Brands Fitness and Google Local Knows the URL of Brands Fitness why aren’t these two things talking to each other and connecting the dots? While I knew where I was going I could definitely see a link to Google local or even a link to Google maps being helpful to the user. You could make the argument that if they did that for Starbucks how would the know where to go. I think the PHD’s at the plex are smart enough to figure out if there is one result link to it if there are multiple results ask a secondary qualifying question.

Secondly Google local or Google maps whichever you are, how about when I do a directions printout make it so everything appears only on one page. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been in the car and going somewhere and realized I left half of the directions back home on the printer tray …

p.s. yes I did notice the second domain for the bike shop, nasty domain spammers, and no I’m not doing any work for a competing bike shop in the area you cynical bunch you.

One Response to “Suggestions For Improving Google Local”

1. Matt Cutts Says:
   April 8th, 2006 at 10:18 am

   Fair feedback; this has bugged me too in the past.