Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search

February 20, 2008

Google Maps: Conflated Records

Category: Google Maps (Google Local) – Mike Blumenthal – 5:57 pm

Rob Nicholson of VisitBritain.org has shared an unusual problem with Google Maps:

Google has combined two listings (despite me registering our business as the correct details) thus giving a “kind of competitor” the picture as a screenshot of their product and the email and url as theirs! and there doesnt seem a way to fix this with Google!

Here are the screenshots….

For the Britain London Visitor Center :

blvc.jpg

And for the apparent cause for the conflict, London Pass Collection Center:

londonpass.jpg

If anyone has experienced anything similar, I would love to know about it.

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