Refine your searches by location
From The Official Google Blog -
Location has become an important part of the way we search. If you’re a foodie looking for restaurant details, food blogs or the closest farmer’s market, location can be vital to helping you find the right information. Starting today, we’ve added the ability to refine your searches with the “Nearby” tool in the Search Options panel. One of the really helpful things about this tool is that it works geographically — not just with keywords — so you don’t have to worry about adding “Minneapolis” to your query and missing webpages that only say “St. Paul” or “Twin Cities.” Check it out by doing a search, clicking on “show options” and selecting “Nearby.”
You can choose to see results nearby either your default location or a custom location, and you can narrow down to results at the city, region or state level. Try these examples:
[things to do on st. patrick's day] – In the Minneapolis region
[food blogs] – Near you
[farmers market] – Near the city of Ithaca
[dmv] – In the same state as Tucson
The new “Nearby” search option is available now on the google.com domain in English.
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I think that in 2010 goes on, the way of on-page and off-page SEO will change as we think it. I think we will see a transformation towards client metrics in deciding ranking results. That included with increased personal SERP results and we’ll be seeing a large molding of the searchers experience with Bing and the other search engines. Every search result will not be made alike, just look at things like user interaction, bounce rate, bounce time, etc… Focus on a better website all around, and I think you’ll see better results in 2010.