{"id":5160,"date":"2009-11-06T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2009-11-06T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:35:33","slug":"local-search-news-of-the-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/local-search-news-of-the-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Search: News of the Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the intersection of Map and life and sometimes the things that I read provide a new angle that just wasn&#8217;t obvious before.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/maps\/thread?tid=5c7ad61b3ad9c808&amp;hl=en\">recent post<\/a> in the Google Maps forums raises all sorts of questions. It falls into the <strong>category<\/strong> of &#8220;no wonder they are getting a divorce&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nDate: October 31, 2009 4:17:25 PM EDT<br \/>\nSubject: I have an ex &#8211; wife who is now a business competitor. How can I prevent her from posting fictitious bad reviews<br \/>\nAuthor: Dream Parties\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When a customer googles my company, all reviews are positive, 5 stars.  But my ex-wife is now in the same business and has threatened to publish fictitious bad reviews.  How can I block all reviews or tell the world that her review is a fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Question from Dream Parties in Maps &#8211; How Do I?<\/p>\n<p>So one has to ask a few questions here, no?<br \/>\n&#8211; What was the husband at Dream Parties really doing?<br \/>\n&#8211; Will ownership of an LBC account someday become a disputed asset in the divorce court? Will we see an LBC custody case?<br \/>\n&#8211; What else does she know?<br \/>\n&#8211; And who really did write those reviews in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>*********<\/p>\n<p>From the arena of News of the Weird (Corporate version) in the  <strong>category<\/strong> of &#8220;Tim Armstrong has his work cut out for him at AOL&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aols-patch-dumps-google-maps-but-not-for-mapquest-2009-11\">AOL&#8217;s Patch Dumps Google Maps, But Not For MapQuest<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nAfter a Spring-time acquisition, AOL&#8217;s local news subsidiary Patch finally dumped Google Maps from its homepages today.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But instead of Mapquest, Patch pages feature Open Street Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Can someone explain to me their thinking? Is this what is known as corporate synergies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the intersection of Map and life and sometimes the things that I read provide a new angle that just wasn&#8217;t obvious before. This recent post in the Google Maps forums raises all sorts of questions. It falls into the category of &#8220;no wonder they are getting a divorce&#8221;: Date: October 31, 2009 4:17:25 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","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=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}