Google Map’s medical center phone data: Code Red!

Last month there were reports of errors in Google Maps listing for Duke Medical Center phone numbers. Not only were the numbers often times wrong but Google Maps was listing as many as 5 phone numbers for a single facility, few of which went to the central switchboard. To Google’s credit the Duke Medical Center …

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Google Maps Custom Attributes differ by industry segment

Thursday, Google introduced the ability to add custom attributes to a business listing at the Local Business Center. It is of interest that the default custom attributes change by industry. The choices for additional detail fields change as well. For example with a service industry the first field is Price, in the restaurant business it …

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NYU Medical Center reports Maps problems

Another report of large medical center problems with Google Maps: == 1 of 1 == Date: Thurs, Mar 8 2007 9:22 pm From: “Michael”   I have the same exact problem. I am the web director for NYU Medical Center. I have the correct address and phone number listed in over 20,000 pages on the footer. …

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Google Upgrades Local Business Center

Google has upgraded the Local Business Center with a range of new features. You can now: *Add photos to your Google Maps listing (within the guidelines) *Add custom attributes to your business listings *Correct and adjust your Google map marker location, so if it is slightly off, you can move it to the right spot …

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Little old lady gets called for tech support…

I love reading the the Google Maps for Business Group postings. This one appeared under the heading, Phone Number Troubles. I’ll say. Recently we have run into a small problem with a women that lives in Sherman Oaks California (Which happens to live near one of our locations) Every time someone Google searches to find …

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Traffic to Google Maps increased by 26% from Jan. to Feb.

LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise reports: Traffic to Google Maps increased by 26% from January to February 2007. It appears that this increase was due to an increase in upstream traffic from Google, which occurred on February 7, according to this daily clickstream chart shown here. Did anyone notice a change in how Google drives traffic …

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WSJ: Local Search Sites Draw Users’ Input

Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article titled: Local Search Sites Draw Users’ Input in which they: • extolled the value of Yelp’s reader reviews • reported on the trend of user generated content in local sites like Local.Yahoo.com, Yelp, InsiderPages.com • Offered up the Kelsey esitmate of $6.2 billion in local search advertising by …

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How accurate is Google Maps data?

There has been a recent upsurge in complaints about the accuracy of data that Google uses in Maps. There were recent (false) reports of hijacking, of very old & outdated listings not being removed and of complete bungling of a medical facility’s listings. The increase in complaints is due in large part to the increased …

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