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 More options Apr 27, 3:03 am
From: TVSTAFF <tvst...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:03:27 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Apr 27 2008 3:03 am
Subject: Re: Free Form Categories
IMHO most people won't upload in bulk and the pull down menu should
offer the same solution multiple legs to assure nomalization of the
lookup table.

I've seen a lot of companies who have their URL's wrong in the MAP
Guide and no one helps them.  I think this issue is based on a couple
of tables have the same data in multiple fields.

If your MAPS section is using the field "Phone Number" to verify or
link "URL's" this could be the trouple I'm seeing on MAPS.  How a
google search and map search come back with different and not correct
information is because of cross-table and field issues.

As for creating your own categories... as a person who maintains data
bases... This will come back to haunt us all on both sides of the
wall.  Try and NORM that data base with 5000 different entries for the
same thing....

one phone number... for a large company with different URL's in
various divisions or groups and "MAPS" and "Google Saearch" get turned
around.  It took Microsoft almost 2 weeks to solve the issue.  I'm
sure that Google will fix it too.  Google seems to care about their
customers.

On Apr 16, 1:55 pm, Maps Guide Sirene <maps-gui...@google.com> wrote:

> Exciting news!

> You can now enter your own categories for your business in the Local
> Business Center. This is something we have been trying to improve for
> some time now, and we're happy to announce that the team came up with
> a great solution.  You'll still have the option of choosing categories
> from our list, but feel free to include your own as well!

> More details about Categories can be found at the bottom of this page:http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=82686

> Maps Guide Sirene


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