{"id":13855,"date":"2012-11-27T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2012-11-27T13:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:16:35","slug":"ah-the-irony-of-google-local-international-number-handling-issue-is-solved-no-it-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/ah-the-irony-of-google-local-international-number-handling-issue-is-solved-no-it-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah&#8230; the Irony Of Google Local &#8211; International number handling issue is solved, no it isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a persistent bug in G+ Local&#8217;s (mis)handling of international phone numbers that Barry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-local-phone-bug-15998.html\">pointed<\/a> out in his blog today. This problem has been <a href=\"https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!searchin\/business\/phone$20number$20format\">on-going<\/a> for a number of months and Google is aware of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>However I found the irony of these <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113006028898915385825\/posts\/8dhzqWwrKHD\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112116680648779331229\/posts\/9MN6GAptypk\">posts<\/a> showing together in my G+ stream too rich to not note. As I pointed out in another post that in Google Local:<\/p>\n<p><em>Google&#8217;s policy of release early and iterate often and innovate often, leads to more than its fair share of bugs particularly when they forget the iterate often part.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13856\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-27 at 10.08.21 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-27-at-10.08.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-27-at-10.08.21-AM.png 565w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-27-at-10.08.21-AM-144x200.png 144w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-27-at-10.08.21-AM-432x600.png 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a persistent bug in G+ Local&#8217;s (mis)handling of international phone numbers that Barry pointed out in his blog today. This problem has been on-going for a number of months and Google is aware of the issue. However I found the irony of these two posts showing together in my G+ stream too &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","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=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13861,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}