Misleading site.

Someone, correcting tag fields, may ask: what can be interesting in editing. It seems like boring work that requires accuracy. But I will tell you one case I found interesting during editing.

I love shopping in hypermarkets located near Zelenograd (Moscow). In the hypermarket building, following my usual route, I often noticed a laundry-dry-cleaning room, where behind the glass walls you could see an incredible size Firbimatic washing machine and

neatly laid out clean items in branded dry-cleaner’s bags.

When I edited Google Maps again and looked at whether all the stores in the hypermarket building were on the map, I have found that there was no hyperlink to the official website in the French dry-cleaner’s tag field. I made a search with the help of Google engine and got a result that in its content caused a lot of doubts that this is the right site for a reputable enterprise. I made another request, slightly changing the original one, but received the same dubious answer in the top in relevance. So I repeated the search procedure until I made one typo, putting the real site of the company in the top in relevance. I read with interest about the history of the company and about the branches, located in Russia. Next, I looked at the French dry-cleaner’s tags in places remote from Zelenograd (Moscow) and the situation with the tags field was similar to that described.

I have included in all tags a hyperlink to the firm’s website.

Definitely, this is the most interesting thing that I have done as a Google Local Guide, as a Master Fact Finder. Here are two sites:

original site and misleading site (may not work properly).

I have made edits and they were approved; after some time has passed, the search in the top relevance began to show the true site. Guess what typo I made?

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