{"id":1145,"date":"2008-10-14T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2008-10-15T05:48:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T09:48:05","slug":"google-maps-hijackers-hit-major-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/google-maps-hijackers-hit-major-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: Hijackers hit Major Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searchengineland has published my newest installment in the ongoing series on hijackings at Google Maps:\u00a0<a id=\"post-15087\" href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/problems-continue-with-google-local-business-listings-15087.php\">Problems Continue With Google Local Business Listings<\/a>. The same hijackers that hit the florist industry hijacked the local listings of major brands like Mariott, Hertz, Avis and Thrifty changing location, url and business name. The change of business name was such that the listings achieved Authoritative OneBox status with searches like:\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=orlando+hotels&amp;btnG=Search');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=orlando+hotels&amp;btnG=Search\">Orlando Hotels<\/a>,\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Miami+Discount+Car+Rental&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Miami+Discount+Car+Rental&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Miami Discount Car Rental<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=dallas+discount+car+Rental&amp;btnG=Search');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=dallas+discount+car+Rental&amp;btnG=Search\">Dallas Discount Car Rental.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is an interesting story which leads to as many questions as answers, not the least of which being: Why would Google not shut these spammers down after they had hijacked the florists?<\/p>\n<p>You can Sphinn this story <a href=\"http:\/\/sphinn.com\/story\/78893#\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searchengineland has published my newest installment in the ongoing series on hijackings at Google Maps:\u00a0Problems Continue With Google Local Business Listings. The same hijackers that hit the florist industry hijacked the local listings of major brands like Mariott, Hertz, Avis and Thrifty changing location, url and business name. The change of business name was such &#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-1145","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\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}