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Youll notice that we do not limit these suggestions to places sharing any specific characteristic instead, we use a broad set of signals to come up with what are hopefully the most interesting suggestions, says Stern. Were still working on refining these signals, so bear with us if your serendipitous discovery of a new place is even more unexpected than youd anticipated.This feature could have both positive and negative effects on local businesses. On the one hand, it could give established customers ideas to go to your competitors. On the other hand, you could be the competitor and benefit from that. The suggestions are just the latest feature in a recent slew of local businessrelated features from Google. The company is clearly focusing a great deal on this aspect of search.