{"id":16161,"date":"2014-02-12T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2014-02-12T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:21:04","slug":"google-local-hummingbird-diarrhea-persists-6-months-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/google-local-hummingbird-diarrhea-persists-6-months-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Local: Hummingbird Diarrhea Persists 6 Months On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-16164\" alt=\"dead\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dead-267x200.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dead-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dead-520x389.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>In local, Hummingbird has produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/28\/hummingbird-local-knowledge-graph-shitty-search-results\/\">number<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/mining-for-google-hummingbird-guano-in-so-cal\/\">terrible search results<\/a>. With its obsessive preference for brand as a search result, even when a searcher is obviously looking for a range of businesses, the algo often still returns but a single spammy result. I guess I am lucky that there are so many colorful synonyms for feces.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Conrad Saam of Atticus Marketing, <a href=\"http:\/\/atticusmarketing.com\/bad-attorney-marketing\/\">noted<\/a> one such low quality website that Google is highlighting with these type of crappy results.<\/p>\n<p>The search for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=dui+attorney+los+angeles&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Dui Attorney Los Angeles<\/a> led to this search result and the website that Conrad wrote about. As these results have been reported Google has been manually deleting the results.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is the results still seem to be widespread on high value terms. And they show up even more frequently when the searcher location is set to a given local market.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/atticusmarketing.com\/bad-attorney-marketing\/\">marketing<\/a> on the website that Conrad mentioned may be horrible and even deceptive. Its still must be generating a fair number of calls for the lawyer given Google&#8217;s willingness to show this type of result front and center on their front page for high value search terms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-12-at-1.35.44-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16162\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-12 at 1.35.44 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-12-at-1.35.44-PM-520x325.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-12-at-1.35.44-PM-520x325.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-12-at-1.35.44-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-12-at-1.35.44-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-12-at-1.35.44-PM.png 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In local, Hummingbird has produced a number of terrible search results. With its obsessive preference for brand as a search result, even when a searcher is obviously looking for a range of businesses, the algo often still returns but a single spammy result. I guess I am lucky that there are so many colorful synonyms &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161","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=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16167,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions\/16167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}