"2012 was yet another interesting year in Local Search. Obviously, the release of Google Plus Local in May will be remembered as one of the year's biggest for quite some time.
For many in the search community, though, it was another year of playing whack-a-mole with duplicate or improperly merged client listings, missing customer reviews, and opaque "we do not support this location" messages in the Places Dashboard. Mike Blumenthal's epic late November rant captured this frustration better than any other."
Linda Buquet :: Catalyst eMarketing's insight:
David Mihm, who is now the Director of Local Search Strategy over at SEOmoz just did a great historical look at everything significant that happened in local search in 2012.
See it on Scoop.it, via Google Places Optimization & Local SEO News
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