{"id":3838,"date":"2009-06-16T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2009-06-16T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T17:06:04","slug":"what-not-to-do-when-you-visit-mountain-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/what-not-to-do-when-you-visit-mountain-view\/","title":{"rendered":"What not to do when you visit Mountain View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I have time on my hands I ponder the big questions in life.<\/p>\n<p>A recent one that popped to mind was whether Google Maps business listings for Mountain View were more spam free than elsewhere. Do the folks at Google do a ground check to see if reality and Maps are at all in sync? Do they look out the window of the corner suite and check whether the listing across the road is correct? Do they have to eat their own dog food?<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t leave you in suspsense. Spam is just as bad in Mountain View as any place. In fact it might just be worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=good+hotel+mt+view+ca&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">Good Hotel In Mountain View<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3840\" href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/what-not-to-do-when-you-visit-mountain-view\/picture-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3840\" title=\"picture-6\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-6.png\" alt=\"picture-6\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-6.png 603w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-6-150x76.png 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-6-450x228.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=clean+hotel+mt+view+ca&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">Clean Hotel in Moutain View:<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3862\" href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/what-not-to-do-when-you-visit-mountain-view\/picture-81-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3862\" title=\"picture-81\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-81.png\" alt=\"picture-81\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-81.png 704w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-81-150x63.png 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-81-450x189.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;ei=Frk3Sv-nG6HOMYCCmYQN&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=spell&amp;resnum=0&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=1&amp;q=Locksmith+mt+view+ca\">Locksmith Mt. View Ca.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;ei=Frk3Sv-nG6HOMYCCmYQN&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=spell&amp;resnum=0&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=1&amp;q=Locksmith+mt+view+ca&amp;spell=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3857\" title=\"picture-7\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-7.png\" alt=\"picture-7\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-7.png 610w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-7-150x85.png 150w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-7-450x255.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The measles map view:<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/picture-9.png\" alt=\"picture-9\" width=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I have time on my hands I ponder the big questions in life. A recent one that popped to mind was whether Google Maps business listings for Mountain View were more spam free than elsewhere. Do the folks at Google do a ground check to see if reality and Maps are at all in &#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-3838","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\/3838","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=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}