{"id":13,"date":"2006-09-29T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-09-29T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T20:28:09","slug":"local-database-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/local-database-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Database accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sterling had an interesting piece on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Local Database accuracy\" href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/25\/local-database-accuracy-how-good-how-bad\/\">local database accuracy <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What did they find? Shockingly, they discovered there was something wrong (minor to major issues) with 47% of the listings! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a remarkably large number. I was truly surprised.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The discussion in the post is of equal interest and well worth a read. My experience with Google&#8217;s data is similar. I beleive that it was originally purchased and maintained by InfoUSA and was riddled with problems. The question is whether the partners\/local businesses\/Search professionals of Google can get the data straight and keep it straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sterling had an interesting piece on local database accuracy What did they find? Shockingly, they discovered there was something wrong (minor to major issues) with 47% of the listings! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a remarkably large number. I was truly surprised. The discussion in the post is of equal interest and well worth a read. My experience &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}