{"id":11713,"date":"2011-11-18T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2011-11-19T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T14:34:50","slug":"google-maps-reflects-our-painful-reality-ads-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/google-maps-reflects-our-painful-reality-ads-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Reflects Our Painful Reality- Ads EVERYWHERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the jokes were flying about how distasteful Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/google-maps-no-stone-unturned-in-search-of-ad-space\/\">new Map&#8217;s info ad venue<\/a> was, I became curious as to exactly how unseemly it really was. So I looked.<\/p>\n<p>As Glen Gabe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenngabe\/status\/137525122331447296\">pointed<\/a> out it may very well be necessary for SMB&#8217;s to take out ads defensively. Greg Sterling <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gsterling\/status\/137522402300141568\">suggested<\/a> that Google think about a Pandora like subscription so you could search ad free. For me, Google&#8217;s ads on the Map info bubble reminds me of ads on &#8220;park benches&#8221; that sit amid the fumes on street corners.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a slide show that I assembled in 5 minutes to explore the possibilities.\u00a0Bing is advertising on Zuccotti Park, Bank of America of course advertising on themselves, Chase is advertising on the Lexington Ave \u00a0women&#8217;s shelter and CPRProfessor advertising on the American Red Cross&#8230;. wow. You can click to see a slide show of some of these ads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/Ads%20Everywhere\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11714\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-11-18 at 9.13.40 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-18-at-9.13.40-AM-520x311.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-18-at-9.13.40-AM-520x311.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-18-at-9.13.40-AM-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2011-11-18-at-9.13.40-AM.png 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the jokes were flying about how distasteful Google&#8217;s new Map&#8217;s info ad venue was, I became curious as to exactly how unseemly it really was. So I looked. As Glen Gabe pointed out it may very well be necessary for SMB&#8217;s to take out ads defensively. Greg Sterling suggested that Google think about a &#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-11713","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\/11713","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=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11723,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions\/11723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}