{"id":13062,"date":"2012-05-31T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2012-05-31T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:40:58","slug":"googlelocal-retains-community-image-upload-but-is-missing-a-way-to-report-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/googlelocal-retains-community-image-upload-but-is-missing-a-way-to-report-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+Local Retains Community Image Upload But is Missing a Way to Report Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader Dimitar Dimitrov sent me this email comment about Google+Local and the attached screen shot of the Google HQ:<\/p>\n

Hello Mike,<\/p>\n

I just a reader of your blog (and an SEO freak). I was messing around with the new Google+ Local or whatever they are officially calling it.<\/p>\n

While me and one of my buddies were messing around with the official Google Listing –\u00a0https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107355571499061888485\/about<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve spotted that anyone can upload pictures… any pictures! Check the profile and see for yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’ve attached my mess in case Google fix it before you can see it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

P.S: I hope Google will fix this bug ASAP…<\/p>\n

My response:<\/p>\n

Dear Dimitar:<\/p>\n

Welcome to the world of Google Local. As they say this a feature NOT a bug.<\/p>\n

This capability has long been abused on Google Places<\/a> and the feature has migrated over to the new Google+Local Page. In Places there was an option to report the image as inappropriate. It does not appear that feature has arrived to Google+Local. I don’t know when that will take occur. In the meantime it is not clear what a business should do if he runs afoul of an ex-girlfriend or a malicious competitor with compromising photos.<\/p>\n

BTW I love your sense of humor. My only regret is that my own library of images does not include such classics!<\/p>\n

(Click to view larger)<\/p>\n

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Reader Dimitar Dimitrov sent me this email comment about Google+Local and the attached screen shot of the Google HQ: Hello Mike, I just a reader of your blog (and an SEO freak). I was messing around with the new Google+ Local or whatever they are officially calling it. While me and one of my buddies …<\/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-13062","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\/13062","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=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13068,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions\/13068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}