The difference the changes to Google Places make

Google Places

Google has made a number of changes to its Google Places service, which used to draw reviews from other sources such as TripAdvisor, Yelp, CitySearch, and Urban Spoon, but which now has additional features and includes reviews strictly generated by their own users. Google Places was started about a year ago, at which time the third party sources of reviews complained that Google was using their site content – especially because the Places reviews typically received superior search ranks to the original sources. That said, now that Google is producing…

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