{"id":973,"date":"2008-09-25T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T03:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2008-09-25T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T03:01:46","slug":"google-maps-hijacking-listings-still-in-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/google-maps-hijacking-listings-still-in-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Hijacking: Listings still in Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEarlier today when I had read<\/a> that Podesta Baldocchi Florist’s listing had returned to normal in the Local 10 Pack, I had assumed that Google had cleaned up the mess and removed the offending listings from Maps. <\/p>\n

Not so fast pardner! It seems two weeks isn’t quite long enough to purge these fellows. A number of listings are still in the index from the hijacking entity. They still show as well on the Local 10 Pack on the search Flowers Brooklyn NY<\/a>. Amazing the difficulty that Google has in purging the database of listings engaged in apparently criminal activity<\/a>. If this activity doesn’t warrant a full and complete ban from Maps, I don’t know what does.
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Earlier today when I had read that Podesta Baldocchi Florist’s listing had returned to normal in the Local 10 Pack, I had assumed that Google had cleaned up the mess and removed the offending listings from Maps. Not so fast pardner! It seems two weeks isn’t quite long enough to purge these fellows. A number …<\/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-973","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