{"id":2279,"date":"2009-02-08T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2009-02-08T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:47:39","slug":"google-has-once-again-elevated-mapspam-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/google-has-once-again-elevated-mapspam-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has once again elevated Mapspam reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the swicthover to the new forum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps\/thread?tid=077f4fbe646f4684&#038;hl=en\">Mapspam reporting<\/a> was temporarily buried amongst the many threads. 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