I have recently been searching around like I normally do and seemed to find some faults and what appears to me to be some glitch with the local business listings.

Here is an example of what I recently did, I simply typed in "Melbourne Forum" and up came a whole heap of local map listings but all showed google url's as their business website. Strange? Now I know Googles local business listings are not very well maintained and it's something that they are working on, but cmon this is a bit over the top. It just goes to show you that you could almost list any website url you want when your local listing is approved. There are still many loop holes, and glitches in their system.

Another interesting find was that when I was searching in Google for "Melbourne Events" , "Bangkok Events" etc. Up came indents from internal link pages from the one website eventful.com which displayed the link and then the date and venue etc. This is something I have never seen before? Does this mean extra promotion for sites that hold events now? If so, I think we will see an increase of sites with events as part of their content.

Then the most bizarre result of them all was when I typed in "Facebook advertising" as this is obviously hot property at the moment. And guess who showed up in the search results? Google!