{"id":650,"date":"2008-05-08T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2008-05-08T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T20:03:49","slug":"google-maps-earthlink-listings-now-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/google-maps-earthlink-listings-now-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps: Earthlink Listings now gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 6th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imnotadoctor.com\/2008\/05\/06\/earthlink-spamming-google-local-too\/\">Imnotadoctor.com<\/a> noted that Earthlink had made quite a mapspam splash. In\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent Link: Google Maps: More Bulk Upload Mapspam or bad data from a Trusted Source\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/google-maps-more-bulk-upload-mapspam-or-bad-data-from-a-trusted-source\/\">Google Maps: More Bulk Upload Mapspam or bad data from a Trusted Source<\/a>. 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