Comments on: Google Maps Hijacker to Boss: “Oops I hijacked the wrong business”

By: Blackhats to Google Maps: Take That! » Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:36:40 +0000

[...] week I made fun of blackhats that had mapjacked a listing for a hotel with the worst of reviews in an effort to rank high on locksmith related searches. The screenshot [...]

By: The Plaza Hotel is Mapjacked » Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:40:49 +0000

[...] domain, was the same as the one that was associated with my previous post on cross industry mapjackiings. It has 229 Business listings associated with it in Maps, all of which appear [...]

By: Dave Hucker

Dave Hucker — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:21:28 +0000

(incredulous) Holy Google Dots Batman!! I’ve never seen so many reviews on a business listing. {blink blink,…rubs eyes} Yeah…still there. wow… Its kind of beyond believe that whoever did the reviews actually think someone might ‘believe’ they’re for real. I mean…1124 reviews?

By: Blumenthal accused of Bad Humor: Pleads Guilty » Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:26:10 +0000

[...] in my post making fun of Locksmith Hijackers picking inappropriate targets to hijack, I made a geeky Maps log joke that was so ludricous on all [...]

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:43:40 +0000

“Interestingly a mole at Google snuck me the logs for those deep interior locations in Maps…”

Mike, I feel like we’ve built up some amount of trust when we’ve talked back and forth, so please take what I’m about to say in the nicest possible way. To even joke that someone at Google would ever do something like this is incredibly inappropriate. You may have intended it humorously, but to people at Google, this made-up comment was pretty offensive and has got quite a few people here angry.

Would you mind making your comment more clear that this comment was completely false, fabricated, made-up, a joke? Some big red bold text in the actual comment for example?

By: Earlpearl

Earlpearl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:16:16 +0000

ya got me…:D

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:58:41 +0000

@EarlPearl

In the spirit of the above article, I must admit that I made every piece of information up in response #8.

Sorry for misleading you. And it isn’t even April 1.

Mike

By: Earlpearl

Earlpearl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:38:59 +0000

Wow, Mike: We have been guessing, estimating, pondering the volume of traffic that actually looks at the information in the LBC. Bingo. Doesn’t that data indicate how rarely people go to the LBC data.

Ugh. Everything in the LBC is simply usable as a trigger to try and get higher ranking within maps and more relevantly higher ranking in the maps insert into organic results via universal search.

Very revealing information. So much for filling the LBC with valuable information.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:17:47 +0000

@Miriam
Ah but that doesn’t explain the bed bugs

@Cathy

~~Interestingly a mole at Google snuck me the logs for those deep interior locations in Maps…~~

Of the 5 visitors over the previous 30 days, 3 had IP addresses that cross referenced to readers of this blog (myself, Miriam & EarlPearl), 1 was from a florist in SF and the 5th was the owner of a spammy locksmith site.

The above comment has been redacted due to its lack of humor.

Mike

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:39:57 +0000

Wait…
Carter Hotel Parking Garage???

Maybe all these unhappy people were staying in the parking garage. Could explain their miserable experience.