{"id":188,"date":"2007-08-02T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/additional-report-of-abuse-at-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T20:00:19","slug":"additional-report-of-abuse-at-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/additional-report-of-abuse-at-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional report of abuse at Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the Google Maps-For-Business Group another <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/fdc7157587983d83?hl=en\">report of bul upload abuse<\/a> surfaced. <\/p>\n<p>This time the culprit is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=we+buy+houses&#038;near=Portland,+OR&#038;fb=1&#038;view=text&#038;cd=1&#038;output=html\">&#8220;We Buy Houses&#8221; refinance industry<\/a>. Like the previous case, all of the entires use a common street address (500 Main) and 800 number. Unlike the previous reports, these appear to only be listed in major metro markets (Portland, Vancouver, Buffalo) but not in smaller markets (Jamestown, NY or Olean NY).<\/p>\n<p>It was reported last night (hats of to earlpearl), that <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/01\/google-removes-bulk-upload-spam\/\">Google had removed <\/a> the previously reported spam. It appears that they have their work cut out for them chasing spammers.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I am taking nominations for a succinct phrase to describe this new practice. Spapping? Serial Map abuse? Mapbuse? 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