{"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t