{"id":339,"date":"2007-12-23T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/wanted-colombo-assistants\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T19:09:06","slug":"wanted-colombo-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/wanted-colombo-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Colombo assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you that are hot on the trail of Mapspammers <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/336514\/hack-google-maps-urls-for-quick-searching\">this post<\/a> might help to speed things up :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/336514\/hack-google-maps-urls-for-quick-searching\">Hack Google (Maps) URLs for Quick Searching <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Basically, the multi-step process of going to Google [Maps], typing in an address, clicking submit, etc., can be avoided by just putting all your info directly into the URL. For example typing this works:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=1683 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So for example to find Cathy&#8217;s florist that she <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/185ba8fd6abfcef3?hl=en==============================================================================\">reported last week<\/a> to Google Maps for Business Group you would simply type in the URL:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=flowers with gifted elegance<\/p>\n<p>To receive your secret decoder ring send along your recently found Mapspam.<\/p>\n<p>(this would also work for those of you who just use Maps a lot and are not interested in joining the Columbo Mystery Squad)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you that are hot on the trail of Mapspammers this post might help to speed things up : Hack Google (Maps) URLs for Quick Searching Basically, the multi-step process of going to Google [Maps], typing in an address, clicking submit, etc., can be avoided by just putting all your info directly into &#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-339","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\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}