{"id":5494,"date":"2009-12-11T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2009-12-11T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:33:41","slug":"google-maps-news-of-the-weird-rustybricks-favorite-places-poster-miscoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/google-maps-news-of-the-weird-rustybricks-favorite-places-poster-miscoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps News of The Weird &#8211; RustyBrick&#8217;s Favorite Places Poster Miscoded?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Google called Barry. \u00a0Even though it is in their recommended QR scanners list, they told him &#8220;not to use the BeeTagg scanner and try QuickMark for iPhone or Barcode Scanner for Android. \u00a0Both worked correctly&#8221;. My question: What good is a bar coding system that is only accurate 2 out of 3 times?<\/p>\n<p>Barry Schwartz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/021342.html\">reports<\/a> at SeRoundtable that the QR code on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/google-promoting-maps-with-100000-favorite-places-poster\/\">Favorite Places Poster<\/a> recently received from Google leads to the wrong Places page. Rather than take the viewer to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?cid=3355964865391212912\">Brick Marketing<\/a>, it takes them to the\u00a0<a style=\"outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #3366cc; text-decoration: underline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: initial none initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/places\/us\/airmont\/saddle-river-rd\/430\/-citrus-grille\">Citrus Grille<\/a>.\u00a0Here is a video of his abortive scan:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FEPEqiY_aGc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FEPEqiY_aGc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Did Google just mess up Barry&#8217;s? Are the errors more widespread? Was it hijacked as Barry asked?<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else experienced similar results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Google called Barry. \u00a0Even though it is in their recommended QR scanners list, they told him &#8220;not to use the BeeTagg scanner and try QuickMark for iPhone or Barcode Scanner for Android. \u00a0Both worked correctly&#8221;. My question: What good is a bar coding system that is only accurate 2 out of 3 times? Barry &#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-5494","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\/5494","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=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}