by Miriam Ellis Almost everyone with an interest in Local Search is trying to get a message through to the large minds at Google, in a variety of ways. The message concerns the real-life effects of inaccurate data in Google’s One Box, 10-pack and Maps on the public. While a major percentage of Internet users have grown to trust the Google brand and will take Google’s local data at face value, few will understand that Google views its own local applications as a wiki, community project. Let me explain why this is seriously problematic

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Why Wikipedia Accuracy Won’t Cut It For Google Local

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