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	<title>Comments on: Confessions of a Google Enabler: In search of Coupons</title>
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		<title>By: Google Confirms Coming Check-in Offers for Plus &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/01/30/confessions-of-a-google-enabler-in-search-of-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-562555</link>
		<dc:creator>Google Confirms Coming Check-in Offers for Plus &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] have a long and sorry history in Google Places. Originally introduced as Coupons in 2007, they were mostly hidden from public view for most of their existence. Google saw some successes during 2007 and 2008 having [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] have a long and sorry history in Google Places. Originally introduced as Coupons in 2007, they were mostly hidden from public view for most of their existence. Google saw some successes during 2007 and 2008 having [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Google Testing Coupons in Adwords &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</title>
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		<dc:creator>Google Testing Coupons in Adwords &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] have had a long a tortuous life at Google. They were introduced in late 2006 and but left to languish for a number of years before seeing some activity in late 2009 and through 2010 with the Tags Beta. [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] have had a long a tortuous life at Google. They were introduced in late 2006 and but left to languish for a number of years before seeing some activity in late 2009 and through 2010 with the Tags Beta. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Google Coupons Joining the Witness Protection Program as Google Offers &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/01/30/confessions-of-a-google-enabler-in-search-of-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-541188</link>
		<dc:creator>Google Coupons Joining the Witness Protection Program as Google Offers &#124; Understanding Google Maps &#38; Local Search</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] hidden not just from my research efforts but from the eyes of consumers as well. Here is what I told an SMB poster in the support forum that was searching for his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: Earlpearl</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/01/30/confessions-of-a-google-enabler-in-search-of-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-328867</link>
		<dc:creator>Earlpearl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the way stonehenge I was able to update and get a coupon up recently.

I didn&#039;t even attempt to do the simple thing that one might assume would automatically work.

I used a method that some smart/nice person suggested in google groups at least 1 year ago or longer.  I don&#039;t know if the simple process even works.

The suggestion was (and still works this way).

1.  Create a coupon.
2.  Do not set an expiration date.  
3.  Enter the coupon through your local business center listing.
4.  Go back later and edit the coupon with your intended expiration date.
5.  Re enter the new edited coupon with the originally intended expiration date.

Upon seeing this post and comments I reintroduced a coupon without an expiration date.  A couple of days later I set the expiration date.  It is up and accurate.

Not exactly intuitive is it?  LOL......:D]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way stonehenge I was able to update and get a coupon up recently.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t even attempt to do the simple thing that one might assume would automatically work.</p>
<p>I used a method that some smart/nice person suggested in google groups at least 1 year ago or longer.  I don&#8217;t know if the simple process even works.</p>
<p>The suggestion was (and still works this way).</p>
<p>1.  Create a coupon.<br />
2.  Do not set an expiration date.<br />
3.  Enter the coupon through your local business center listing.<br />
4.  Go back later and edit the coupon with your intended expiration date.<br />
5.  Re enter the new edited coupon with the originally intended expiration date.</p>
<p>Upon seeing this post and comments I reintroduced a coupon without an expiration date.  A couple of days later I set the expiration date.  It is up and accurate.</p>
<p>Not exactly intuitive is it?  LOL&#8230;&#8230;:D</p>
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		<title>By: Austin Graffiti</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/01/30/confessions-of-a-google-enabler-in-search-of-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-327192</link>
		<dc:creator>Austin Graffiti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is doing too much. They need to stick to search, or at least collecting and storing information.

By creating coupons they&#039;re stepping into real world commerce, something outside their domain.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google is doing too much. They need to stick to search, or at least collecting and storing information.</p>
<p>By creating coupons they&#8217;re stepping into real world commerce, something outside their domain.</p>
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		<title>By: Stonehenge</title>
		<link>http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/01/30/confessions-of-a-google-enabler-in-search-of-coupons/comment-page-1/#comment-326623</link>
		<dc:creator>Stonehenge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*snort*  So I&#039;m not the only one struggling with that one then.

I&#039;ve attempted up to 20X to create new or edit old coupons in an attempt to make my coupons go &quot;live&quot; again, each time without success.  Either the changes appear to have been accepted, only to never go live, or I try to create new ones, which for some reason can no longer be done on my account.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*snort*  So I&#8217;m not the only one struggling with that one then.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve attempted up to 20X to create new or edit old coupons in an attempt to make my coupons go &#8220;live&#8221; again, each time without success.  Either the changes appear to have been accepted, only to never go live, or I try to create new ones, which for some reason can no longer be done on my account.</p>
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		<title>By: Blue Summit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blue Summit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Mike, 
just wanted to thank you for the support you give! :)
Best wishes from germany!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Mike,<br />
just wanted to thank you for the support you give! <img src='http://blumenthals.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Best wishes from germany!</p>
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		<title>By: Earlpearl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Earlpearl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quality writing, Mike.  Too bad journalism is a dying industry.  On the other hand, the use of clever striking irony is always welcomed in the theater.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quality writing, Mike.  Too bad journalism is a dying industry.  On the other hand, the use of clever striking irony is always welcomed in the theater.</p>
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