{"id":28,"date":"2005-02-03T21:14:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-02-03T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:15:30","slug":"google-local-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/google-local-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Local Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/lochp?hl=en&#038;tab=wl&#038;q=\">Google<\/a> has launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/lochp?hl=en&#038;tab=wl&#038;q=\">local search functionality<\/a> in BETA format.  Its quite a cool way to search online as it allows you to find what you are looking for per city.   <\/p>\n<p>Here is what Google has to say about the new functions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes the information you&#8217;re looking for is related to a particular place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like the all-night doughnut shop that&#8217;s nearest to your house. Google Local locates neighborhood stores and services by searching billions of pages across the Web, then cross-checking those results with Yellow Pages data to pinpoint the local resources you want to find. This innovative approach gives you access to the most \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and most relevant \u00e2\u20ac\u201c results for your search.<\/p>\n<p>To use Google Local, just include a zip code or the name of a town or city with your regular search terms at www.google.com. Your local results will appear at the top of the results page.<\/p>\n<p>You can also go directly to the Google Local home page to view only local results, see results on an area map, or limit your results to listings within a set distance from your starting point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/google-local-search\/' data-title='Google Local Search' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/google-local-search\/' data-title='Google Local Search' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched its local search functionality in BETA format. Its quite a cool way to search online as it allows you to find what you are looking for per city. Here is what Google has to say about the new functions: &#8220;Sometimes the information you&#8217;re looking for is related to a particular place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}