Google impacts Local businesses by introducing dramatic algorithm change

"We're introducing Place Search, a new kind of local search result that organizes the world's information around places. We've clustered search results around specific locations so you can more easily make comparisons and decide where to go". - Google Blog, October 28

Google has recently announced what appears to be a significant change in how & which searches are displayed when a visitor searches for local products / services.

Within Professional healthcare this means people searching for doctors, consultants, clinics and hospitals are now seeing different results displayed compared to what was appearing a few weeks ago. This is a KEY CHANGE - for many their listing may no longer be appearing on the first page of Google as before but could have been relegated to Page 2 & beyond.

Google introduces Place Search which affects. - See Newsletter

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