Comments on: Google Local Business Center Results Emailed to Random Business Leaders?

By: J Kelly

J Kelly — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:13:01 +0000

On a brighter side, I think it will create more traffic to the site. Honestly, privacy is one of the most crucial issue that’s being pointed out in this scenario.

By: Learn Seo Today

Learn Seo Today — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:55:05 +0000

I got one of these too. It was for a company that’s not a client of mine as well.

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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:51:26 +0000

[...] This almost only happens with unique and passionate stories, let’s examine a recent example. On January 6th Google had an apparent privacy breach. Noticing the apparent importance of the issue and recalling previous statements from Eric Schmidt from Google saying this would “never happen at Google” I wrote a lengthy and passionate post entitled, Google Local Business Center Results Emailed to Random Business Leaders? [...]

By: Melih Oztalay

Melih Oztalay — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:52:53 +0000

Hi David,

Local business listings have been around for a number of years and developments that started in the early part of 2009 are what we are seeing now.

As search, social media and mobile converge, local business listings will be a significant development for the local business and the small business dependent upon the local consumer for their revenue.

What happened with Google sending the wrong information to the wrong businesses is part of the evolution and the maturity that will occur of this marketing tool. Certainly it is unfortunate that a company like Google does not have more quality controls to avoid this type of problems from happening in the first place.

One has to keep in mind this is only the of the iceberg. Already in progress are local business listing hijackings, which I think is a bigger problem than the reports.

Later this year we will see Adwords targeted to the local level; QR Codes; issues around consumer reviews on local listings; and lastly (for now) citations. I am sure as each of these come to market something will be a problem and we will have to work through it.

The industry is putting 100′s of millions of dollars behind this marketing tool that will generate significant ad revenue. We will see this as a next wave for the next three years.

By: Google Maps Adds Personalized Suggestions; Where’s Personalization? | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:00:22 +0000

[...] question that David Dalka asked me last week though was: If Google offers personalized search (and now personlized [...]

By: Google Apologizes For Local Data Breach | Kyle Kazak

Google Apologizes For Local Data Breach | Kyle Kazak — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:43:55 +0000

[...] users like David Dalka, a business development and online marketing strategy strategy consultant, reported receiving one of the errant e-mail messages and suggested that the incident could harm users’ trust of Google. “If the Google Local [...]

By: Small Business Trends « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection

Small Business Trends « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:23:43 +0000

[...] were concerned and a little upset. Mike Blumenthal covered the situation, as did search marketer David Dalka, Search Engine Roundtable and The Register. When asked, Google responded that it was “a glitch” [...]

By: Google Blames ‘human Error’ for Data Leak « Kotak Infotech

Google Blames ‘human Error’ for Data Leak « Kotak Infotech — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:10:24 +0000

[...] realizing the privacy implications. Chicago-based Internet consultant David Dalka wrote on his blog that he received information regarding the listing for Boscos, a restaurant in Tennessee that brews [...]

By: Google Local Business Center Privacy Breach? | The Campaign Against Google

Google Local Business Center Privacy Breach? | The Campaign Against Google — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:52:43 +0000

[...] to David Dalka, Google committed a privacy breach and sent him and others the statistics for someone else’s Google Local Business center. David [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:49:36 +0000

Oddly enough my wife and I actually dined at Boscos in Nashville, TN over the holidays. Not a bad place at all, hope they are getting the search traffic they deserve

By: Gary Robinson

Gary Robinson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:33:45 +0000

The disappointing thing about this, is the first email I received had better stats than my own site

By: George Revutsky

George Revutsky — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:46:06 +0000

I got one of these too. It was for a company that’s not a client of mine as well.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:53:01 +0000

thanks for bringing this to our attention. Every time Google grabs for more data in new ways, the concern for situations like this, and worse – situations where true private personal information leaks out becomes greater.

Too many people toss such concern aside due to arrogance. And another major issue is how so many companies can get away with not disclosing most of the security breaches they encounter. Which just reinforces the false belief that most people have that such situations are rare.

People who use Google Wave are a great example of the potential level of exposure. This is not a good thing at all.

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uberVU - social comments — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:49:03 +0000

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