Soooo weird. I looked into the functionality of HoursCenter.com and it seems to be a big error on their back-end. It's auto populating any business in the country with any name... any business that is semi-generic sounding, and has a first name in the URL string (/josephs for instance) is seemingly pulling in ANY business/name listed with that name attached.
Because these subfolders are very generic, and this terrible website auto-generates some of its listings (business owners have to claim them manually once identified) - any generic name that is also a business, or someone's name who owns/is listed for that business including residential properties, is getting pulled into their database.
I'm confident we could find even more examples based on the URL structure.
However, a large portion of the other materials from the Steemit link are NOT simple database errors.
When I used their search function for Josephs, it pulled any and all-- but those Joseph's, such as "Joseph's Classic Market" have their own little logo, making it differentiated from the "Joseph's Bistro" list.
The example URL provided makes sense, as any legitimate businesses with a unique logo would supersede the generic "Joseph's" as a separate business listing.
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SoSpricyHotDog ago
Soooo weird. I looked into the functionality of HoursCenter.com and it seems to be a big error on their back-end. It's auto populating any business in the country with any name... any business that is semi-generic sounding, and has a first name in the URL string (/josephs for instance) is seemingly pulling in ANY business/name listed with that name attached.
For example:
https://www.hourscenter.com/tonys/ & https://www.hourscenter.com/bobs-stores/
Because these subfolders are very generic, and this terrible website auto-generates some of its listings (business owners have to claim them manually once identified) - any generic name that is also a business, or someone's name who owns/is listed for that business including residential properties, is getting pulled into their database.
I'm confident we could find even more examples based on the URL structure.
However, a large portion of the other materials from the Steemit link are NOT simple database errors.
duhiki ago
When I used their search function for Josephs, it pulled any and all-- but those Joseph's, such as "Joseph's Classic Market" have their own little logo, making it differentiated from the "Joseph's Bistro" list.
https://www.hourscenter.com/search-results?cx=partner-pub-6371063963738592:3182582079&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=josephs&sa=Search
SoSpricyHotDog ago
The example URL provided makes sense, as any legitimate businesses with a unique logo would supersede the generic "Joseph's" as a separate business listing.