{"id":733,"date":"2008-07-29T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2008-07-29T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T21:30:42","slug":"indian-it-firm-outsources-local-us-mapspam-to-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/indian-it-firm-outsources-local-us-mapspam-to-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian IT Firm outsources Local US Mapspam to itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

I frequently check my own record for Web Hosting Olean NY<\/a> in Google Maps and when it popped up with this one box result my eyebrows raised a tad to see a new web hosting firm located at Vidhyapati St in Olean.<\/p>\n

Olean, while it may have a number of Asian and Indian residents, typically has streets named after US Presidents, classic American Trees and the original thirteen states.
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I found even more irony in Google’s claim that the “placement on the Map is approximate” (I’ll say):<\/p>\n

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Upon a little investigation it become obvious that Olean wasn’t the only market that Cisin.com was targeting, with over 2,000 listings in the US<\/a> at 307 Vidhyapati St (which just happened to be the same address as listed in their Whois record<\/a> in Indore, India ) in one town or another:
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I had recently decided that since Google had posted their mapspam reporting tool<\/a>, I would limit my mapspam reporting. This case is so rich in irony, that I couldn’t resist. This is one IT outsourcing firm that gets the job done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I frequently check my own record for Web Hosting Olean NY in Google Maps and when it popped up with this one box result my eyebrows raised a tad to see a new web hosting firm located at Vidhyapati St in Olean. Olean, while it may have a number of Asian and Indian residents, typically …<\/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-733","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\/733","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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}