Mike Blumenthal

From google Maps at 5:00 pm EST: The Google Local Business Center is unavailable for the next hour We appreciate your patience as we perform some routine system maintenance. More specifically, we’re updating ‘the backend’ (to employ that catchy, catchall moniker coined and lent to us by engineering folks who work on all of the …

Last week I spoke with Marc from podestabaldocchi.com, one of the florists in San Francisco that was hijacked in mid September in Google Maps. Two things struck me in the conversation. The first was that he estimated that his business was off 30% for the weeks of the hijacking. That is a significant number that …