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  • Different locations can have different CPC (cost-per-click) bid configured. Even if you have multiple locations of a business, it’s still managed per site. Different areas also have different CPC rates depending on who is around that location (not including your own businesses). For example, a metropolitan CPC rate is higher than a rural one because so many others compete with you.

    That 25 minute one is near a bunch of other stores and I’d bet has a higher CPC rate. The 2 minute one is more isolated.

    I checked and that all have about the same rating (3.5), so it shouldn’t have been ranked by that. In the end, Google isn’t picking what’s best for the consumer, and enough to encourage me to go 20 minutes extra out of my way. Them being all the same franchise helps clarify it isn’t an issue of finding a better search term match since they’re all identically labeled the same.











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    1 year ago

    All English is based on etymology which is why it’s such a hard language to learn. Looking at how a word is spelled always takes second place to where it comes from.

    GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. Year, decades, later it came back into social media with Reddit and Twitter, and people pronounced it based on what it looked like it would sound like, which is most similar to hard g like gift.

    That doesn’t mean GIF never had a soft g. It just shows how old you are or when you discovered it when you use the hard g.