Google Places Review Bugs on the Mend

Late yesterday Google  quashed at least 3 known Places review bugs. Reader Jeffrey Magner of TrumpetMedia reported that the nasty review bug in Google Places first seen last week that prevented anonymous reviewers from leaving reviews has been fixed. All anonymous reviewers with nicknames are now seeing a highlighted publish button and are able to leave a review. …

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Google Places Tidbits and Quirks

Update 3:30: Google Employee Sid has noted below that the Report a Problem Link is a bug that Google is working hard to fix. 1. Top Contributor EHG in the Google Places forums, emailed me yesterday that the “Report a Problem” Link has disappeared from the bottom of your Google Places Page. It is still …

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Google Places to Rollout Repair Option for Merged Listings

Ethan Russell, a Product Manager on Google’s local search team, recently posted some comments on my post: Google Customer Service: Up Against the Algo. He noted that sometime this quarter, Google will be rolling out a service solution to the long standing problem of two listings merging. It doesn’t appear that mergings will cease but rather …

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Loci 2010 – Gib Olander

Gib Olander currently serves as Director of Business Development for Localeze and frequent speaker at search marketing conferences. Localeze is a leading provider of merchant content management services, which includes; collection, organization, validation and distribution of merchant content. This content is widely used in the local ecosystems and the data is the foundation of place …

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Loci 2010 – Matt McGee

Matt McGee needs little introduction to most readers here. He has been involved, perhaps longer than I, in the local space as a consultant, practitioner and writer and was one of my first virtual friends in the space. I have had the good fortune to have had Matt become a real friend and we often …

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Google Places Search Results: When it Goes Wrong, it Goes Very Wrong

Reader Plamen Byrzev called my attention to this very bizarre Places Search result on the phrase sports nutritionist Las Vegas NV. Local indeed. One presumes that the result is related to the Contact Page on her site named http://www.christinaleora.com/las-vegas-trainer/ with the following title tag: Las Vegas Trainer -Personal Trainer Las Vegas | KICK YOURSELF FIT …

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Loci 2010 – Jim Moran of Yipit

Jim Moran is co-founder of Yipit, which aggregates and recommends Daily Deals based on your tastes. The site gathers offers from Groupon, LivingSocial and nearly 300 deal services, and sends the best to you each day based on your preferences. In a previous life, Jim worked in mergers & acquisitions at The Blackstone Group. He …

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