Google has been focusing some energy on raising the profile of Google places recently.
Back in April they changed the name from the Local Business center to Google places.
And now from the 12 July Google has given over more of it’s most valuable Search engines results page space to Google Places, as seen in the example shown here.
Now when you carry out a search the One box will provide a link to the Google Places page within the main results pages. All the more reason for local businesses to have there own optimised business listing.
