Published: Jun 14, 2011 - 01:36 pm
Story Found By: Realicity 704 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
3 Comments
3 Comments
Search Engine Land produces SMX, the Search Marketing Expo conference series. SMX events deliver the most comprehensive educational and networking experiences - whether you're just starting in search marketing or you're a seasoned expert.
Join us at an upcoming SMX event:


Learn more about search marketing with our free online webcasts and webinars from our sister site, Digital Marketing Depot. Upcoming online events include:
Comments
Something I've noticed regarding searches for service providers like hvac contractors, home remodelers, painters, electricians, mechanics - very often one of these "descriptive terms" is a name. And I guess that's not a surprise as most of the people would write in their reviews something like "Really appreciated the work of James", "Gregg is super professional" etc
All this thing is still in beta I think and it will pass some time until Google finds the best way to extract the most appropriate terms and feature them.
I'm much less optimistic that the value of this will outweigh the inaccuracies and mistakes that will cause harm to local businesses.
I'd really hope that they'd refine this functionality.However, there seems to be a lot of new product/functionality deployment going on, with less attention to testing and quality control. Shouldn't many proper names (like what Nyagoslav mentioned) be surpressed? Not to mention the competitor names appearing in Hawaiian hotel listings like Matt identified.And, the mystifying random phrases it chooses to highlight...