Comments on: More cases of Massive Mapspam in Maps

By: panzermike

panzermike — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:45:18 +0000

@ miriam

Yeah but many businesses have multiple phone numbers. Several law firms are still dominating Maps in Los Angeles by a combination of 301 redirects, false names, different phone numbers and url’s.

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:53:46 +0000

[...] and early June there were reports of high volume bulk upload Mapspam for Earthlink, BigLocal and Computer Assistant. These listings were national in scope and often noted that the listing was Not a physical [...]

By: martijn

martijn — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:46:41 +0000

not massive mapspam, but spam is appearing now in europe as well! multiple business listings on one address of the same company, just using different descriptions and titles for their services provided. I covered my research in the following blogpost you can find here.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:57:09 +0000

Hi Miriam

I agree with you that the listings are suspicious and one wonders why they were caught algorythmically. But I have this sinking feeling that when you and I are old and gray that we will be having this same conversation.

Mike

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:40:33 +0000

For crying out loud. That’s really some spam!

I have no idea how they’ve gotten away with this. The identical phone numbers ought to be triggering a big red flag for Google. In fact, I’d say that would be the best signal Google could use for weeding out mapspam, perhaps.

Sounds like the computer guys are getting rather annoyed by this, too, from a glance at the conversation going on.

I’m guessing we’ll see this disappear rather quickly now that you’ve posted this, Mike. Quite a catch!
Miriam