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
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Mike,
\nCan I just say, with a monumental sigh of gratitude, Thththank youuu.<\/p>\n
and Phew!.<\/p>\n
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 “local\/add” google places website and received a message from the planet zog which said, bluntly “There is no data for your request”on my errr “dashboard” (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’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
Earth to google… Come in Google. Who are these people? Really, I’d like to know, who are they?<\/p>\n
Luckily, I have a snuffle around the web (wasting valuable earning time) and found your wonderful google translation which told me that “there is no data…zogg…dubble….woogla…request” means that they haven’t uploaded the details I put in yet. Ohhh. (though quite why this \u00a0takes 6 weeks \u00a0– six!! and relies on pigeon postcards to send me cyber pin numbers, baffles me , if possible, even further).<\/p>\n
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":"
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