{"id":10011,"date":"2011-05-24T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2011-05-24T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T13:13:13","slug":"what-the-smb-really-thinks-of-google-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/what-the-smb-really-thinks-of-google-places\/","title":{"rendered":"What the SMB REALLY Thinks of Google Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poster just left this comment on another post but I felt that it so captured the frustration of the new initiate to the bizarro world of Google Places that I wanted to give it more visibility:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike,<br \/>\nCan I just say, with a monumental sigh of gratitude, Thththank youuu.<\/p>\n<p>and Phew!.<\/p>\n<p>Having tried to upload my lovely business on google places, I was tearing my hair out in frustration as the seizmic idiocy of google in producing such a complex, complicated, complelety impossible system which would drive anyone including Mr ultimately-zen-calm \u00a0round the i-twist. I received my postcard, logged on to the \u00a0totally unintuitive &#8220;local\/add&#8221; google places website and received a message from the planet zog which said, bluntly &#8220;There is no data for your request&#8221;on my errr &#8220;dashboard&#8221; (apple speak). Having no idea what this meant, and watching in dismay as my \u00a0competitors have happily logged their businesses on places, I tried to contact google for help. Woooow ho ho, back up tonto and don&#8217;t go there. Clearly google are so customer-lovingandhugging that they have no facility in england or in holland to receive a telephone call, or an email.<\/p>\n<p>Earth to google&#8230; Come in Google. Who are these people? Really, I&#8217;d like to know, who are they?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I have a snuffle around the web (wasting valuable earning time) and found your wonderful google translation which told me that &#8220;there is no data&#8230;zogg&#8230;dubble&#8230;.woogla&#8230;request&#8221; means that they haven&#8217;t uploaded the details I put in yet. Ohhh. (though quite why this \u00a0takes 6 weeks \u00a0&#8211; six!! and relies on pigeon postcards to send me cyber pin numbers, baffles me , if possible, even further).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on my e-wanderings I met many other perfectly sensible people who have considerably less hair (and nerves) than they once did as a result of crossing paths with Google Places -How this \u00a0bunch of prepubescent techno-nerds ended up with a reputation for leading edge business practice is, well, its beyond me. But thanks to you. At least I know now to wait a few days, pity the poor so and sos who have bigger problems, Google represents hells on waiting room for common sense folk of the planet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poster just left this comment on another post but I felt that it so captured the frustration of the new initiate to the bizarro world of Google Places that I wanted to give it more visibility: &nbsp; Mike, Can I just say, with a monumental sigh of gratitude, Thththank youuu. and Phew!. 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