Google Places Bug Causes Repeated Phone Number

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Chris Piepho in Around The Web

Update: Scroll to the comments to see a fix if this is causing you trouble.

Mike Blumenthal reports that there is a ubiquitous bug in Google Places today, causing phone numbers to be displayed incorrectly after any Places edits. He writes:

Any Places edit seems to cause the smooshed phone number bug in Google Places. I repeat, the Places Dashboard is armed and dangerous. Do not approach, do not interact, immediately report any sitings of the smooshing bug directly to the forum.

Just chance that I have not made any Places updates recently… and expect I will wait to do anything until Google makes some sort of fix. If this really happens on any edit, it is much more common than most bugs – and will hopefully quickly be squashed.

Time to get out the flyswatter Google.

Read the full original article (with a picture of the problem) at Understanding Google Maps & Local Search.

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6 Responses to “Google Places Bug Causes Repeated Phone Number”

Mike Blumenthal September 27, 2011 at 9:32 pm #
Joy Hawkins has reported a fix if this occurs to your record in the forums. If you go into the Dashboard edit mode, remove the phone number from the phone number field and add it back in and save the record, the display of the phone number will return to normal.
I had to do this two times for it to work. But it did work!
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- Chris Piepho September 27, 2011 at 9:34 pm #
  Awesome, thanks for the update Mike – I’ll make a note of it above!
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