{"id":94,"date":"2007-01-30T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-01-30T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T19:31:01","slug":"the-good-and-the-bad-of-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/the-good-and-the-bad-of-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good and the Bad of Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1\/20\/07, I wrote on the Google Blog:<\/p>\n<p>Jen (Google Map Guide)<\/p>\n<p>We work with a local restaurant that when viewed in Google Maps has but<br \/>\none review from CitySearch dated September 2005.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a number of subsequent customer reviews posted on this<br \/>\nrestaurant at CitySearch, Yahoo and Yelp since May, 2006 and later but the<br \/>\nreview information at Google has not been updated.<\/p>\n<p>As a small business owner, they understand your use of reviews to<br \/>\nprovide reader guidance. However, they are concerned that Google has<br \/>\nnot conscientiously updated their information.<\/p>\n<p>Please advise.<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p>On 1\/30\/07 Google responded:<\/p>\n<p>Hey Mike,<\/p>\n<p>I completely understand your local restaurant&#8217;s concern about the most recent reviews not appearing with their business.  At this time, I can&#8217;t tell you exactly when we&#8217;ll be getting those new reviews into Google Maps, but I can assure you that we are working to provide the most up-to-date data that we can. The best I can do at this time is ask your client to be patient, and let them know that more recent reviews should be appearing shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nJen<!--more-->It&#8217;s good news and bad news&#8230;which one do you want first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1\/20\/07, I wrote on the Google Blog: Jen (Google Map Guide) We work with a local restaurant that when viewed in Google Maps has but one review from CitySearch dated September 2005. There have been a number of subsequent customer reviews posted on this restaurant at CitySearch, Yahoo and Yelp since May, 2006 and &#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-94","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\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}