Google Places pages have been en­tirely re­placed by new Google+ Lo­cal pages

Google Places pages have been en­tirely re­placed by new Google+ Lo­cal pages

That should help in­crease the pop­u­lar­ity of Google Plus.
https://searchengineland.com/google-places-is-over-company-makes-google-the-center-of-gravity-for-local-search-122770

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