That has always been one of the biggest problems in dealing with G. The example of the impact on the florists is a scary one and highlights the need to make sure your efforts at promotion are as balanced and widespread as possible.

Once again, great post and thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention.

Here is what the owner of CityVoter said in his blog post on the matter: Apparently, the last time that Google pulled information from our site, it did so incorrectly. Google is a big company, and despite their error, it is a lot to ask a big company like Google to make changes quickly. We’re being told it will be another 2-3 weeks before they can fix the problem.

Poster #10 who seems to imply knowledge of the situation, did not respond to my question about how long it should take. Thus we are left with Josh Walker’s assessment and implication.

Given what we know then I would agree that Google is not really making any effort to speed this along but since it is a black box and we have not heard all sides, I am holding out final judgement.

Mike

Am I reading too much into this or does the time frame suggest that Google is not really making any effort to speed this along? Or are there other factors that make this difficult for them to toggle that switch?

Even if this was cityvoters error it should be fixed right away as too many merchant’s have their incomes at stake.

At the end of the day, Google controls the switches and they need to pull this one faster. The merchant’s shouldn’t pay a price for cityvoters mistake or even the slightest delay on Google’s part in pushing this data out.

Mike

I’m sure he’d love a secret decoder ring.