Comments on: Google Expands Google Suggest & Local News http://searchengineland.com/google-expands-google-suggest-local-news-17183 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: onlinemurray http://searchengineland.com/google-expands-google-suggest-local-news-17183/comment-page-1#comment-5176 onlinemurray Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:50:34 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17183#comment-5176 I really like the depth to which you showed the imapct of this. It's significant despite some of the gaps, including the lack of local inserts with singular terms vs. plural that seem more likely to generate the 3- and 10-packs. The rankings world is a rough ride already and will only get crazier if the regular natural results go local this way. Maybe they should if user intent can be determined a great deal. I'm all for giving engines some room to be wrong sometimes. As they move to the natural waters, there may be a danger of pushing down valuable results if they decide to display both national and local listings for a non-geo term. Now that will be interesting. --Mike Murray I really like the depth to which you showed the imapct of this. It’s significant despite some of the gaps, including the lack of local inserts with singular terms vs. plural that seem more likely to generate the 3- and 10-packs. The rankings world is a rough ride already and will only get crazier if the regular natural results go local this way. Maybe they should if user intent can be determined a great deal. I’m all for giving engines some room to be wrong sometimes. As they move to the natural waters, there may be a danger of pushing down valuable results if they decide to display both national and local listings for a non-geo term. Now that will be interesting.

–Mike Murray

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