thanks to Matt McGee for tipping me off to this one. Here’s a particularly useful example:
Google Maps Launches the K-Pack
Andrew Shotland
February 18th, 2009
8 Comments
Tags: Google Maps
email me: localseo at localseoguide.com
thanks to Matt McGee for tipping me off to this one. Here’s a particularly useful example:
Tags: Google Maps

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1 Mihmorandum | Interesting New Interface on Google Maps | Google
[...] McGee first noticed the “K-Pack” announced on the official Google Maps Blog last night and the Local Searcharati have been [...]
2 Google Maps Proves More Locksmiths in NYC than Cabs » Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search
[...] Mihm alerted me to an interesting tidbit about the new K- Pack. The new Google Maps feature showing more than 10 business in the Maps view, conclusively [...]
3 New Google Maps View Shows Hundreds of Local Results | The Expand2Web Blog
[...] McGee spotted this first last night. Andrew Shotland affectionately named it the K-Pack. And David Mihm shared some excellent observations about it as well on his [...]
4 SEO TRICKS GUIDE
[...] Andrew Shotland quickly dubbed this new feature the K-Pack (get it: K=1000) and Mike Blumenthal has already found an unexpected use for the K-Pack as a spam fighting tool. Just take a look at this outrageous set of results for locksmiths in NYC. Google really ought to take a look at the embarrassing state of spam overload in that industry. The K-Pack could make it easy work for them! [...]
5 Stever
Seems there are far fewer assholes in New York than there are locksmiths, or asshole-spamming-locksmiths, as per the k-pack conversation taking place on Mike Blumenthals blog.
Or, looking at your trackback spam here on this post, asshole-rss-scrapping-trackback-spammers.
6 Stever
ermmm, now that Andrew removed the scraper trackbacks I don’t meant to say the other trackbacks from David M., Mike B., Don C., and Miriam E., right above this post, are trackback spamming, that would make me the asshole.
7 Google’s K-Pack Rocks Local at SEO Pro
[...] Andrew Shotland quickly dubbed this new feature the K-Pack (get it: K=1000) and Mike Blumenthal has already found an unexpected use for the K-Pack as a spam fighting tool. Just take a look at this outrageous set of results for locksmiths in NYC. Google really ought to take a look at the embarrassing state of spam overload in that industry. The K-Pack could make it easy work for them! [...]
8 Productification » Google Map Search Layer - Innovation in Local Search
[...] authority, etc) but not necessarily the closest one. With the new feature (Andrew Shotland calls it K-Pack) I can quickly find that there is a few Dry Cleaners that are more closer than the ones in the top [...]
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