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Google provides lots of ways for business owners to fix their listings, and even lets individuals directly edit Maps. The case in this post happened to slip through a crack. Cases like this can (and sometimes do) lead to improvements to the automation and tools available to businesses. But if Google had a help line for people to call, they'd incur a huge opportunity cost in engineering time that could be better spent on valuable new features than minor improvements in data quality.



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