{"id":2761,"date":"2009-03-17T08:57:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:34:07","slug":"google-maps-cleaning-up-the-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/google-maps-cleaning-up-the-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: Cleaning up the Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of weeks ago Google announced that they had closed one <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/google-claimed-business-records-no-longer-can-be-hijacked\/\">LBC security hole that allowed mapjackings<\/a>, last week they indicated that <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/google-maps-fixes-newest-hack-adds-private-mapspam-reporting-form\/\">they had closed yet another<\/a>. Yesterday I <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/the-plaza-hotel-is-mapjacked\/\">highlighted a prominent mapjacking of The Plaza Hotel<\/a> that Google almost immediately remedied. Kudos to Google for all these moves. But are they enough?<\/p>\n<p>Today I was mapjack cruising and found this OneBox listing for the search phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;client=safari&#038;rls=en-us&#038;q=locksmith+in+detroit+mi&#038;btnG=Search\">Locksmith in Detroit, MI<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-12.png\" alt=\"Detroit Locksmith Hijacking\" title=\"picture-12\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s strategy to only remove high profile problems leaves these many, many polluted listings in the index affecting both users and businesses alike. Is it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dewpointproductions.com\/seo_blog\/local-search\/locksmiths-crack-google-local\/\">really fixed<\/a>? Perhaps I am naive but when the plumbing breaks you don\u2019t just seal the leak you clean up the mess from the broken sewage pipe.<\/p>\n<p>I am confident that Pizza Papalis isn&#8217;t too happy about standing downhill from this particular pipe. <\/p>\n<p>In a related story, Steve Hatcher, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axemedia.com\">local search marketer<\/a>, was in Portland last week for SEMpdx SearchFest 09 and saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kptv.com\/video\/18896692\/index.html\">Fox News report on<\/a> the Portland nightly news detailing the Locksmith scam. It was noted in the video that the Google results led to a Pizza Parlor. An interesting tidbit was that these scam locksmiths will gain entry to anyone&#8217;s house on your behalf, not just yours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of weeks ago Google announced that they had closed one LBC security hole that allowed mapjackings, last week they indicated that they had closed yet another. Yesterday I highlighted a prominent mapjacking of The Plaza Hotel that Google almost immediately remedied. Kudos to Google for all these moves. But are they enough? Today &#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-2761","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\/2761","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=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}