![\"stop-over-onebox\"](\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/stop-over-onebox-212x200.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As you know I have been a fierce critic of the bad<\/a> local<\/a> results<\/a> that came out of the Hummingbird update<\/a>. Search terms that should have returned lists of local businesses would often return a branded one box that often would be complete spam.<\/p>\n When it was critical for a client, I reported the bad results and they would disappear after the second or third report. \u00a0Often after writing an article, some would magically disappear. But I was tracking several as markers that I hadn’t reported and those are now gone.<\/p>\n I am curious if others are seeing the same thing. Have the s$%%^&y Hummingbird One Boxes disappeared for you? Has Google final solved this problem? Can I finally put a lid on (at least for now) \u00a0the toilet humor?<\/p>\n Or was it just the few that I was monitoring have disappeared and there is still the problem of brand being such a strong signal that spam will surface?<\/p>\n Can you let me know if you are seeing fewer of the Hummingbird precipitated branded one boxes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you know I have been a fierce critic of the bad local results that came out of the Hummingbird update. Search terms that should have returned lists of local businesses would often return a branded one box that often would be complete spam. When it was critical for a client, I reported the bad …<\/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-16258","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\/16258","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=16258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16264,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions\/16264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}