Comments on: Google’s Hypocrisy: Search Spam and Map Spam

By: All Sales & No Service: Google’s Small Business Priorities Are All Messed Up

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:53:04 +0000

[...] Google’s word for it, too. I wrote about this on my own blog almost three years ago: Google’s Hypocrisy: Search Spam and Map Spam.) Mike Blumenthal once changed Microsoft’s campus into an escort service on Google Maps and, [...]

By: Mihmorandum | Google Wonders… | Google

Mihmorandum | Google Wonders… | Google — Fri, 06 May 2011 10:30:04 +0000

[...] insistence on the “wisdom” of this strategy has been clear since the very first dust-up over user edits–a dust-up which has, we in the Local Search community hope, at least partially led them to at [...]

By: Google Ends Community Editing Free-For-All In Maps

Google Ends Community Editing Free-For-All In Maps — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:10:24 +0000

[...] expands upon Google’s steadfast commitment to open community.” (That, in turn, prompted a rare rant from me about Google’s hypocrisy toward map spam vs. search spam. Good [...]

By: Google Maps UGC: End User Edits Now Require Google Review | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search

Wed, 26 May 2010 02:48:38 +0000

[...] Google Maps added the capacity to allow users to edit business listings. It caused a great deal of consternation at the time and shortly thereafter, as many (myself included) thought that allowing unverified user [...]

By: bjinks

bjinks — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:24:45 +0000

I have 28 business listings (Self-Storage Facilities) that are active and verified by Google. Overnight an individual or bot edited all of them by changing the URL to point to their fictitious website. I’M FURIOUS ABOUT THIS AND I’VE LET GOOGLE KNOW IT! I’ve literally spent over 100 hours getting everything right with my listings to display properly and now to think that any bloke can edit anyone’s URL, business categories and map marker locations at will is a huge hole that Google needs to close, especially for active and verified listings. Any edits should first be approved by the verified business owner before publishing them.

By: Is It Time To Send Google Maps Back To The Drawing Board?

Is It Time To Send Google Maps Back To The Drawing Board? — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:19:24 +0000

[...] local business information on Google can sometimes be a matter of life and death. The irony, or the hypocrisy as I’ve written on my own blog, is that Google will cite the need for accurate medical [...]