{"id":193,"date":"2007-08-05T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/the-mysterious-hand-of-google\/"},"modified":"2007-08-05T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T14:43:41","slug":"the-mysterious-hand-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/the-mysterious-hand-of-google\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious hand of Google&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Sunday and the  <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/02\/additional-report-of-abuse-at-google-maps\/\">&#8220;We Buy Houses Mapsspam<\/a> are no longer visible in the Google Maps index. <\/p>\n<p>This particular case was reported to Google on August  1 in the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/fdc7157587983d83?hl=en\">Google Maps for Business Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This particular abuse was much more limited in scope than<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/first-case-of-large-scale-abuse-at-google-maps\/\">the Computer Repair<\/a> abuse in that it only targeted large metro areas rather than every zip code and only returned results on a brand rather than a broad search term. Additionally the listings disappeared after just 4 days rather than the 2 weeks of the original exploit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Sunday and the &#8220;We Buy Houses Mapsspam are no longer visible in the Google Maps index. This particular case was reported to Google on August 1 in the Google Maps for Business Blog. This particular abuse was much more limited in scope than the Computer Repair abuse in that it only targeted large &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}