Episode 2: GMB Messaging, Local Commerce at Google, Privacy

Send us Fan MailThe Near Memo is a weekly conversation about search, social, and commerce: what happened, why it matters and the implications for local businesses and national brands.Discussed this week:-Google’s integration of Business profile messaging into the Google My Business for the desktop and the implications for SMBs and enterprise brands-Google’s test for displaying local e-commerce sites and what it says about Google’s ambitions in their competition with Amazon-Apple’s privacy initiative, how it will affectect consumer behaviors  and how consumers often say they want privacy but have done to little to gain it. Subscribe to our newsletters and other content at https://www.nearmedia.co/subscribe/