Comments on: More Local Listings Live in Google?

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Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:22:52 +0000

[...] More Local Listings Live in Google? - Greg Sterling asks about the loss of the ratings [...]

By: cohn

cohn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:47:34 +0000

I too am seeing them and wrote a post about it here:Google Local Business Results

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Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:49 +0000

[...] Greg Sterling commented today “the ratings disappear in this expanded view and the ratings display is valuable.” An important point, Greg, though I’d argue that until the quality of the algo improves, it’s more important to display a larger number of relevant businesses than it is to show review information for a smaller, less relevant number. [...]