{"id":17260,"date":"2014-10-15T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:56:50","slug":"one-very-strange-survey-is-google-getting-into-the-data-distribution-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/one-very-strange-survey-is-google-getting-into-the-data-distribution-business\/","title":{"rendered":"One Very Strange Survey – Is Google Getting Into the Data Distribution Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This survey from Ipsos<\/a>, a market survey company, claims to be on behalf of Google. If that is true then the questions are quite bizarre and really makes one wonder what Google is up to. Is Google looking to replicate what Yext has done with real time data distribution? Or just shooting an arrow across their bow? Update: \u00a0Google has confirmed that they in fact did send out this survey.<\/p>\n

I asked Yext if was their survey and they said that it wasn’t theirs but they had heard of it from some of their clients.<\/p>\n

If the survey is in fact not from Google then it would seem that the survey world seems to following in the footsteps of 29Prime and just claiming its from Google to increase participation.<\/del><\/p>\n

Either way very strange. I am sure you will agree when you look at some of the questions:<\/p>\n

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This survey from Ipsos, a market survey company, claims to be on behalf of Google. If that is true then the questions are quite bizarre and really makes one wonder what Google is up to. Is Google looking to replicate what Yext has done with real time data distribution? Or just shooting an arrow across …<\/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-17260","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\/17260","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=17260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}