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“Local search is an important priority for us, and we’re focused on helping businesses be discovered and helping consumers find the right local business,” a Google spokesperson told ITBusiness.ca in an e-mail interview. “One key component of that is the Local Business Center to allow business owners to have control over their listing.”

If you’re running a business and still believe that Yellow Pages is more reliable for a local listing than Google, this article might make you think twice.

Google released a preview version of its latest tool this past October. There was much anticipation around Wave, which developers promised would revolutionize the way we communicate and collaborate. Google capitalized on this anticipation by limiting who would be allowed to use Wave; upon making the preview available, they sent out a limited batch of invitations and each invitee could ask 10 friends to join. Those 10 friends were not given additional invites, so there was a limited number of invites available.

If you just happen to be one of those who had bought into the whole, “email and instant messaging ain’t ever gonna work for my business for they’re both dead” hype, Google Wave could be the app to change your mind.

Paul points it out as a failed dishwasher search. Mike complains about automated content as does RWW. And we all have experienced it: The Google ecosystem is failing more – failing to get us what we think we want. Failing to not frustrate us. Failing at the more complicated queries we are throwing at it. Failing to be the Google that we came to love back when the web was small and Facebook was a way for Harvard geeks to try to get laid.

John Battelle points out something that more and more SEO specialists have been noticing. Find out if Google is satisfying your search needs and how this issue might affect your online business.

Watch out Apple, here comes Nexus One, the Google phone the tech world has been salivating for. Over the weekend Google set off a fury of speculation when employees tweeted they were testing a new Android-based mobile device. Google later ratcheted up the Google phone buzz when in a blog post it confirmed it was testing a handset with “innovative hardware” from one of its partners. Said to be named Nexus One, many critics believe this device will give the iPhone a run for its money.

If the iPhone has revolutionized the way we conduct business online, then news of Google releasing its own phone; Nexus One should alert you to something really exciting on the horizon. This could mean new business opportunities for you. Read on to find out what’s coming.