Google Maps Record Failures – Can they handle my personal
medical records?  I have recently noted examples (here & here)
of merged business records in Google Maps. It appears that this
phenomena and the rogue hospital phone number issues of Duke
University and other medical centers are related.  Roughly two
weeks ago I edited a record in Google Maps for a new web design
customer and as has been my recent experience with the LBC, was
posted to Maps immediately and correctly with no verification
required. My client, also my best college friend, was impressed.
However, he called me early this week and noted problems with
his Google Maps record:   He had suddenly acquired additional
phone numbers and the medical profile of a Doctor in Carbondale,
IL with whom he has no relation. The phone numbers were from
regional Detroit sites that had his hospital name, St. John
Providence Hospital, but no reference to him.  The signals that
I had assumed might be causing the problems: website address,
web links, web reference