Lots of coverage today on the launch of the Google Local Business Center. It’s a free tool whereby businesses can add or update their business listings on Google Local. This comes on the heels of the launch of similar services by Yahoo!, Amazon and others. John Battelle has the scoop. A lot has happened in [...]

Lots of coverage today on the launch of the Google Local Business Center. It’s a free tool whereby businesses can add or update their business listings on Google Local. This comes on the heels of the launch of similar services by Yahoo!, Amazon and others.

John Battelle has the scoop.

A lot has happened in local search since Battelle mused on the subject a month back, and it’ll be interesting to see who emerges as the main players.

RustyBrick over at Search Engine Roundtable took the new feature for a test run. Read his report now. The snail mail response system and 2 week turnaround seems a little long, especially given that Amazon said they were averaging 7 days for their A9 Local Search when we spoke to them at SES.

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