{"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>. I questioned the source of the many listings, theorizing that it came not from a bulk upload but from a data feed. It now appears to be completely gone.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-651\" title=\"earthlinknospam\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/earthlinknospam.jpg\" alt=\"Mapspam Gone\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/earthlinknospam.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/earthlinknospam-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 6th Imnotadoctor.com noted that Earthlink had made quite a mapspam splash. In\u00c2\u00a0Google Maps: More Bulk Upload Mapspam or bad data from a Trusted Source. I questioned the source of the many listings, theorizing that it came not from a bulk upload but from a data feed. It now appears to be completely gone.\u00c2\u00a0 &#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-650","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\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}