{"id":10846,"date":"2011-08-15T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=10846"},"modified":"2011-09-05T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:43:03","slug":"google-mt-view-reported-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/google-mt-view-reported-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flash: Google Mt View Reported Closed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of discovery, I have once again embarked on a project to determine exactly how many &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/places-blackhat-playground-reported-to-be-closed\/\">closing reports<\/a>&#8221; are required to actually show a business as closed on their <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?q=Google+Mountain+View,+1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043-1351&amp;hl=en&amp;cid=1017478923201951099 \">Places Page<\/a>. The answer: Only 2 even if you are Google.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 12:39<\/strong>: 16 minutes after it was reported as closed, the listing had the yellow flag removed and it once again notes that there are unverified edits.<br \/>\n<strong>Update 1:33<\/strong>: After a few more reported closing reports, Google Mt View has once again been closed for the past 30 minutes. The experiment is open to all. Be sure to use a throw away Google account. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<strong>Update 1:40<\/strong>: It is once again showing as open and no longer showing as having unverified edits.<br \/>\n<strong>Update 5:27:\u00a0<\/strong>Deanna Yick has just forwarded me this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/clarification-re-clarification-re-closed-listings-on-google-places\/\">clarification<\/a>\u00a0from Google that I have posted it and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/clarification-re-clarification-re-closed-listings-on-google-places\/\">responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-15-at-12.14.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10847\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-08-15 at 12.14.03 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-15-at-12.14.03-PM-520x442.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-15-at-12.14.03-PM-520x442.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-15-at-12.14.03-PM-234x200.png 234w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-15-at-12.14.03-PM.png 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of discovery, I have once again embarked on a project to determine exactly how many &#8220;closing reports&#8221; are required to actually show a business as closed on their Places Page. The answer: Only 2 even if you are Google. Update 12:39: 16 minutes after it was reported as closed, the listing had &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10851,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions\/10851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}