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Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by LocalSearchPilot.

Yesterday I mentioned how Google Paid results were showing random blue markers with address and phone #s .
Today is the first day in which I noticed multiple blue markers and this time each marker was numbered.
The query for “st louis fence”  had these results (click for larger image)
[update at 4:40pm] I did the same query [...]

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Are Local Maps Reliable?

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by LocalSearchPilot.

I am still waiting for the Local Map to be 100% relevant (in my opinion). Let me give you an example of a query I did today. A search for “kitchen cabinet stores st louis” on Yahoo gave me this:

I am 100% that CK Concrete does not offer kitchen cabinets.
On Google, I got this:

I know Kohls offers [...]

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