Google Maps has no real public persona that equates to Matt Cutts on the organic side of the Google house. Cutts has taken on the role of guide, teacher, disciplinarian, webmaster liason, diplomat, conveyor of the company line\u00a0and\u00a0industry \u00a0spokesperson for Google. You may not always agree with him but he has earned our respect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is no one from the Google Maps team with the same standing in the Local community. Carter Maslan occasionally has the public interview & Jen Chin (aka Maps Guide Jen) attends conferences and is the occasional poster on local blogs and now in the Google Helps Group, Maps Guide Jade posts to the Google Maps Help Forum Announcements<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maps Guide Jade,<\/a>\u00a0a relatively new addition to the team, makes regular public proclamations….they tend to the cheery, energetic, over the top and occasionally polyannish statements of an enthusiastic 22 year old (I am guessing here…my age bias is showing \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n She tends to hyperbole and some of the statements she makes are questionable<\/a> (i.e. “Google Maps is the #1 mapping destination site globally”). Others seem to me just wrong. Here is one that I noticed where she recommended<\/a>\u00a0that businesses make a community edit of their business rather than claim it in the LBC when making a move:\u00a0<\/p>\n