{"id":5173,"date":"2009-11-06T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:20:34","slug":"has-google-maps-fixed-the-onebox-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/has-google-maps-fixed-the-onebox-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Google Maps Fixed the OneBox Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since August, there had been numerous complaints in the forums (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>) and in this blog<\/a> that Google was increasingly presenting the Authoritative OneBox<\/a> on more general searches that should really be showing the Lucky 7 Pack. <\/p>\n

In late September there was an active post<\/a> in the forum that seemed to coalesce a number of complaints around the issue and posters presented a large number of examples of the OneBox showing inappropriately that Google could examine. On September 30th, Google chimed in and at acknowledged the issue. Numerous examples<\/a> of the problem continued to surface throughout October. <\/p>\n

Well it seems that during the hubbub<\/a> yesterday about phone numbers, Google seems to have rolled out a tweak that has fixed many of the reported problems. The 3 & Lucky 7 Packs are now showing in place of many of the Authoritative OneBoxes on the general searches given as examples.<\/p>\n

I tested 22 of the example searches from the forum post and 15 of those were now presenting the 7-Pack, the 3-pack or no Universal Local Result instead of the OneBox. Of the 7 others that weren’t, 4 were clearly spam and 3 were results that probably should have a Lucky 7 Pack presented. However in those 3 that should be presenting broad results, there is a certain ambiguity in the search due to the similarity between the business name and the search phrase.<\/p>\n

Here are several examples from the post of listings still returning the OneBox on what are arguably general searches. <\/p>\n

Not Spam:<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Bartending School<\/a>. (Note that Pittsburgh Bartending Schools<\/a> though is now returning a 3 Pack.)<\/p>\n

\"Picture<\/a><\/p>\n

Clearly Spammy Business Title:
\n
\nGerman Classes Los Angeles
\n<\/a>
\n\"Picture<\/a><\/p>\n

Are your searches that were returning inappropriate OneBoxes now generating the 3 or 7 Pack? Is the problem solved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since August, there had been numerous complaints in the forums (here, here, here, here) and in this blog that Google was increasingly presenting the Authoritative OneBox on more general searches that should really be showing the Lucky 7 Pack. In late September there was an active post in the forum that seemed to coalesce a …<\/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-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t