Good guides gone bad: How Google’s ‘Local Guides’ program fails businesses and consumers

Columnist Jamie Pitman talks to some of the leading figures in local search to find out what went wrong with the Local Guides program, and if enough steps are being taken to fix it.

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SearchCap: Google zero results gone, Subscribe with Google for news & non-English URL SEO

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SearchCap: Bing Powers AOL, Uber To Bing Maps & Google+ Gone From Google Search

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SearchCap: Google Panda Slap Press Releases, Authorship Gone Again & North Korea Mapping

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Authorship Goes Down Again, Twice In One Week Google Authorship is once again down for the count, second time within a one-week period. Authorship is the…

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