"Tricky Issues With Local Search"
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Shows concrete failures in local search: wrong phone numbers for Newport Beach police and a jail listing that kept getting calls, messy Google/Yahoo claim workflows with step-by-step claim your business flow, and repeated locksmith spam example that illustrates indexing errors. Demos Street View controversies and partial fixes plus Street View opt-out methods, and probes location services: Urban Spoon, iPhone/AT&T/Google retention questions and a stolen-phone recovery case, so expect practical fixes, bugs, and privacy tradeoffs.
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