{"id":634,"date":"2008-05-04T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/google-reaching-out-to-local-search-blogging-community\/"},"modified":"2008-05-04T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T21:46:14","slug":"google-reaching-out-to-local-search-blogging-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/google-reaching-out-to-local-search-blogging-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reaching out to Local Search Blogging Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Chin, aka Maps Guide Jen, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/google-maps-fixes-missing-record-bug-2\/#comment-231519\">recent comment<\/a> to my article <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/google-maps-fixes-missing-record-bug-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Maps Fixes missing record bug<\/a>, has noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen me posting as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maps Guide Jen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on our Maps Help Group, but<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping to get out in the blogosphere and comment on blogs more<br \/>\noften.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<em> We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re currently talking about a better system for posting when issues<br \/>\nare resolved, but in the meantime, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll appreciate your patience as we<br \/>\nwork to make our Maps product better. Thanks for the feedback\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceven<br \/>\nwhen it may not be apparent that Google is paying attention, we are<br \/>\nworking to do better. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dealing with the vagaries of Maps has been, at best, a frustrating experience. Between the bugs, the unknowns and the lack of communication from Google, solutions have been hard to come by. I certainly welcome a more open Google. I can only hope that they perceive the need to respond in internet time, not Google time and that they respond in a forthright fashion.<\/p>\n<p>To our Maps Guide Jen, I say: <strong>Welcome to the party!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Chin, aka Maps Guide Jen, in a recent comment to my article Google Maps Fixes missing record bug, has noted: You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen me posting as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maps Guide Jen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on our Maps Help Group, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping to get out in the blogosphere and comment on blogs more often.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re currently talking about a &#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-634","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\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}