Reply to post: Re: I'm in two minds

'At least I can walk away with my dignity' – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss

James Marten
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Re: I'm in two minds

There's no vindictiveness in the screenshot - just an example of someone not knowing even the basics of web searching (which applies not just to Google, but any other). Just sticking "streetmap" on the end of a search term is too generic a word to get to Streetmap - you can't blame Google for suggesting the correction, and what should Google do with that search coming from outside the UK?

Do the search the right way: either go to to or bookmark streetmap.co.uk and search from there, which will get results from Streetmap and only that. Or, if you really must use Google as a proxy searcher for another site, then search for "aspley guise site:streetmap.co.uk" and Streetmap's result will come up first.

Look back a few years in these forums for the "facebook login" thread for another example of the folly of this.

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