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Conclusions * Local business owners seem to be confused about what actually constitutes spam, but can you blame them? The world of the Local search engines is often confusing even to those of us who study them on a daily basis! * Google's creation of a public forum for reporting anomalies in Maps has helped a lot of businesses recover traffic lost via Maps, and has probably helped Google identify weaknesses in its own algorithm as well. The responsiveness of the Maps team has been relatively admirable, even without providing verbal confirmation in the thread that changes have been made. (Of course, business owners whose situation hasn't been addressed are irate over the lack of response...) * The on-again/off-again bulk upload feature of Google Maps seems to be a particular favorite tool of mapspammers. * Local business owners: claim your listing at Google to avoid being victimized by hijackers and to decrease the likelihood of conflation with someone else's listing. If you don't have a website, direct your Local Business Listing at Google to one of your listings featuring the same information on another portal, such as Yahoo, Citysearch, or Yelp. * The large percentage of reported record conflations also underlines the importance of giving Google a strong signal of your business information (i.e. spiderable HTML address and phone number) on your own website. The more closely Google can associate that particular information with your business, the lower the chance of identifying someone else's business with the same information. In all honesty, I was surprised that the total number of bona-fide instances of spam reported in two months was so low, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's possible that the quality of Local results has improved dramatically since the advent of the 10-pack in January. However, more likely is that the typical local business owner doesn't know where to report possible spam. It'll be interesting to see whether

Perhaps nobody has more experience with millennials entering the career phase of their lives than the admissions director of an MBA program. That's why we asked Peter Johnson, who heads up admissions at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, to tell us what profession-minded millennials want and how best to communicate with them. You might just be surprised - as Johnson once was - at how podcasts, blogs, and even an extremely patient phone demeanor can help bridge the gap between members of this generation and their future supervisors.

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Online video reached another all-time high in July with a total of 21.4 billion videos viewed during the month. This means there are Super Bowl-sized audiences for online video...