Robert Scoble

People keep asking me "are you still excited about Google+?" I tell them "has everyone stopped using search yet? If not, I'm still excited about Google+."

Here's a good example, for my brother Benny Scoble who runs a bar in Virginia, USA. Will a customer find him thanks to Google+'s new local features? It might happen, especially as more and more of his customers get Android phones or use Google search. Here's one restaurant we visited today for Father's Day in London. When I got back to the hotel I wrote up a review of the place and posted it there and on Yelp, too. Google's local features are quite good, by the way and integrated into Google+ quite well.

One thing I noticed, though, is that the restaurant had a "like us on Facebook" sticker on its window, even though its Facebook page at Cheminee Persian Restaurant isn't well done at all. I don't get why small business people advertise Facebook but then don't post photos of what they do.