Comments on: Google Maps Tells Us What’s Here

By: Brennan

Brennan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:25 +0000

The problem I was referring to was the ability to game the local search for what would appear on the “What Is Here”. I know for many large office buildings in my city they have around 15 companies who are spamming and saying they are located there but are not really. I am not saying anyone would win a lawsuit I am just saying from a PR standpoint people have already wanted their homes removed in the masses from street view and if people game the system for residential housing it is just another thing that Google will have to deal with in an editorial process.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:07:05 +0000

@jlbraaten—That sounds to me like basically what this is. Do you meant that we wouldn’t have to right click? I’m kind of partial to the right click. There are established functions for single and double clicks in Google Maps. I don’t people changing my click functions and I don’t want every building address/name to pop up every time I mouse over or click in the area.

By: jlbraaten

jlbraaten — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:56:22 +0000

I think it's the precursor to a really cool technology, which would be clicking on a building on Google maps and having the business name and address display. That would be worth some big kudos in my opinion. jlbraaten's last blog post..3 Steps to Find Your Social Media Tools and Purpose

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:19 +0000

I’m pretty sure you can’t win a lawsuit for harassment or libel by suing over information available in any phone book. But as I mentioned in the article, Google doesn’t display that info in “What’s here?”—it just tells you a range of street addresses (although most phone book information is searchable in the main Google database).

By: Brennan

Brennan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:47:56 +0000

Google is slowly and slowly becoming more invasive on peoples lives. I don’t really see the point in people also being able to say what is there for residential housing because this just opens up more cases of harassment and libel.

By: write a writing

write a writing — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:49:15 +0000

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