{"id":33,"date":"2006-10-30T16:12:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-10-30T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:14:03","slug":"877-520-find-goog-411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/877-520-find-goog-411\/","title":{"rendered":"877-520-FIND (Goog 411)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sterling <a title=\"Who's behind 877-520-FIND\" href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/30\/whos-behind-877-520-find\/\">found an ad today<\/a> for 877-520-FIND that took him to http:\/\/www.520find.com\/. He looked for but couldn&#8217;t find any ownership information. Other than a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanlogic.net\/terms.asp\">LanLogic<\/a> on the terms of use page.<\/p>\n<p>While the facts of ownership may be cloudy, there are several things that are clear:<\/p>\n<p>1)The service works very well. I tested it with 7 calls this morning and only ran into problems on one business name (and no place names) out of the seven attempts and that was the try with the radio blaring. I have started using it instead of my contact directory which can be distracting when driving down the road.<\/p>\n<p>2)It definitely uses the Google Maps local data set. I have optimized the business titles for several local businesses in the Google Local Business Center  and those titles are listed in 520-FIND verbatim.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried the service yet, you should. It demonstrates how local data is quickly being pushed out into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Sterling found an ad today for 877-520-FIND that took him to http:\/\/www.520find.com\/. He looked for but couldn&#8217;t find any ownership information. Other than a reference to LanLogic on the terms of use page. While the facts of ownership may be cloudy, there are several things that are clear: 1)The service works very well. I &#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-33","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\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}