Google business listings slightly too easy to edit

Search engine marketing guru Danny Sullivan says small-time businesses are stealing other's listings in Google Maps. "Florists, locksmiths, payday loan companies and others have found their listings hijacked in this manner." It's a hack so obvious I'm surprised no one at Google thought of it: You can edit the listing…
Google gamed by small businesses
Search marketing icon Danny Sullivan recently moved back to his native Southern California after 12 years in a small English town. Yeah, we thought he was British, too. Sullivan documented several infuriating problems he hit trying to connect with local businesses through Google. One stands out, because it was caused…
Why does Firefox use Google for search? Follow the money
A new version of Firefox, the popular alternative Web browser, is getting close to releasing a third version. That's prompting people to take a close look at the business practices of Mozilla Corp., the maker of Firefox. Danny Sullivan, the longtime search-engine observer, is calling on Mozilla to let Firefox users…
Danny's done: Search Engine Watch founder to quit
The founding editor of Search Engine Watch, the heavyweight in search blogging and the Wall Street Journal for the growing search-marketing set, says he's heading out this winter. Danny Sullivan announced his impending exit — from SEW and his Search Engine Strategies conferences — on his personal site, saying, "My…
Your mom knows this search blogger
USA Today, the paper read by Middle America and hotel guests trying to find the Sudoku page, ran a rock-star profile of search blogger Danny Sullivan.
What Danny Sullivan hates about Google
Well of course Danny Sullivan already wrote his story, "25 Things I Hate About Google." When he posted his "25 Things I Love" counterpart at ClickZ today, it should have been clear he was repurposing a week-old idea from his own ClickZ site, Search Engine Watch — idea recycling is what we bloggers do. And he'd…
