How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will

Post by gnaritas » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC

owenmarshall wrote: post #125

gnaritas wrote: post #54

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It is unprofessional.

It's unprofessional for a restaurant or a mechanic or a pet groomer to have their Facebook/Google page as their official web presence? How can it be "unprofessional"? That's simply not their profession. Why should we judge them on that? What an odd comment.

It's unprofessional for any business to use a Facebook page as their website. A business that wants to appear professional has their own domain and their own presence on the web; Facebook pages are for marketing, not hosting your website. A professional presence doesn't have another company's branding all over it.

Your comment is far odder than mine.

Post by Semaphor » Fri, Jul 11, 2014, 7:51 AM UTC

gwern wrote: post #91

Semaphor wrote: post #28

The yelp review paint a picture of 2010: Great food, great service 2011: Good to great food, horrible service 2012: Horrible food, horrible service I usually don't trust yelp, but the decline is way too visible here.

> I usually don't trust yelp, but the decline is way too visible here. So, you are told of a credible example of a restaurant being sabotaged on one user-content-based website by opponents, and then turn to another user-content-based notorious for fake reviews & astroturfing, and see an abrupt & extraordinary decline on every axis, and rather than take this as additional evidence of the sabotage campaign, you take th…

The decline was gradual, got worse over time and the users often have multiple reviews. Also it started before the google thing.

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