Google Map’s Business Location Bulk Upload Still Not Working

MapsGuide Jen had noted in the Google Group – Maps for Business that the bulk upload had been fixed as of January 4th. That “fact” was reported here and at SearchEngine Roundtable. However according to recent posts in the Group (here and here) it appears that the bulk upload feature is still not working. This …

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Google Maps: Good News Bad News Announcement

Update 7:14 am 01/08/08 MapsGuide Jen to stay! Hi Mike, I’m not going anywhere quite yet! You’ll be seeing more posts from Maps Guide Sirene in the group, but you can’t get rid of me that easily ;o) Cheers, Jen Well Dave, there is a Santa Claus after all! **** In a surprise announcement today, …

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Local Links of Interest

Taking Local Search to Store Shelves – Greg Sterling, Screenwerks Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors – Bill Slawski, SeobytheSea Googlebot In Aisle Three: How Google Plans to Index the World? – Bill Slawski, SearchEngineLand

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SEL Survey Data & Comparison

Mobile User Survey Redux: the Late Adopter After Greg Sterling surveyed SEL readers on their mobile internet usage patterns, I thought it would be interesting to survey a totally distinct user group. Greg agreed and we surveyed the 1123 registered readers of OleanInfo.com, a local portal site catering to folks interested in Olean NY. Roughly …

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Most read articles for 2008

Here are the top 10 read articles from Understanding Google Maps over the past 12 months: 1. Which On-line Directories provide details to Google Maps 2. First Case of Large Scale Abuse at Google Maps 3. Google Coupons now has searchable interface 4. Now taking Nominations for the Rubber Chicken Awards 5. Sources for Google …

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Local Links of Interest

As noted in WRAL.com there is a new local search engine, WhatsOpen.com that is now open. WhatsOpen is an intriguing service with an even more intriguing about us page. Their approach to local search is not the standard who, what or where but rather what and when. They ask a question that even folks familiar …

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Google Maps: Bulk Upload now broken in LBC?

Update 01/04/08 According to MapsGod Jen this has now been fixed. Jen has apparently been on leave and yesterday returned to the Google Maps for Business Group with a vengeance! In today’s Google Maps For Business Owners another bug in the Local Business Center seems to have been confirmed. This time the bulk upload procedure …

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A new Blumenthals.com Blog: Small linux deployments

Our newest blog, Small linux deployments, is all about the technical side of operating a local linux-based hosting and web design company and is written by Erek Dyskant. Erek is our System analyst, sys admin, programmer, hardware and general technical guru, a sort of Renaissance man of the Linux world. He has worked with us, …

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