Mike Blumenthal

Earlier today Google announced an educational and legal attack on deceptive robo calling that has and continues to run rampant in the local space. Google mentioned in their blog today that they had filed a lawsuit. I have just read through the filing and it reads like one of my rants against this sort of …

Update: Details of Google’s Robo Calling Lawsuit Against Local Lighthouse are now available. Apparently Google is not going to take the abuse from robo callers any more. Today Google is publicly starting to educate the public about rob caller’s abuses in Google’s name AND has apparently initiated its first law suit against a search marketing …

Scott Hendison of Search Commander in Portland, reported some strange goings on with Google My Business today for clients that were using location extensions in Adwords – a consolidated interface using the current bulk upload interface that presented both the local listing and the AdWords account. From Scott’s post: TWO of three clients that I’ve …