I didn’t even know this was possible, but Google Maps is seriously weird. I just sent the following to .
Hey! Don’t know if there’s anything you guys can do about it, but Google might be causing you to lose business to University mall Theaters!
I have lived here for 10 years and I love Cinema Arts. A friend who is new in town agreed to meet me for a movie today. She typed “cinema arts theater” into google and hit “get directions” and set out. When I texted her to ask where she was, she said she was turning onto 123. She lives in Annandale so I had said it was a straight shot up 236, what was she doing over there?? She said her directions were 123 to Braddock…I said WHAT???
Turns out that when you click “get directions” you are given directions to University Mall theaters, over by GMU! The address is right – 9650 Main St – but the map shows University Mall, you can see the Patriot Center on there and everything. There is a dot that says “Cinema Arts” right where the University Mall theaters are.
I don’t know if you guys can write to Google or anything but this is a weird mistake, I never saw anything like it before!
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07 Dec 2009 at 23:39
You maybe already heard about the nofollow tag, invented by Google to prevent spam. In fact, it doesn’t prevent or decrease spam at all, and a lot of criticism has been expressed against it. Some of the reasons why you shouldn’t use nofollow are summed up at NoFollow, and a recent post about Google’s mistake is available here.