Google Maps carries approximately 11 million illegitimate local listings, with hundreds of thousands more getting created each month, the...

Google Maps has added a “popular dishes” section to eatery listings, giving prospective diners a faster way to check out a restaurant’s...

In the wake of GDPR and a constant drumbeat of largely negative privacy news in Europe and North America, consumers and marketers are...

Privacy is the new black. At F8, Google I/O and, this week, Google Marketing Live, privacy has been front and center, with Facebook and...

Google Ads SVP of Ads and Commerce Prabhakar Raghavan on stage at Google Marketing Live Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO – A trend that has been...

One of the major themes of Facebook’s F8 developer conference and this week’s Google I/O is privacy. Location is a sensitive and central...

Location-tracking illustration from Norwegian consumer advocacy organization, Forbrukerrådet. Characterizing smartphone location...

Potential customers can get almost everything they need to make a purchase decision from Google Maps, Google Reviews, Yelp and other...

Roughly a month ago AP reported that Google continues to collect location data when ‘Location History’ is turned off.  The company...

A California resident named Napoleon Patacsil has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court (Patacsil v. Google, Inc.) seeking...

Yesterday, the AP reported that Google collects user location data regardless of user Location History settings: Google wants to know...

We do not allow anonymous reviews today and we’ve removed legacy anonymous reviews. The reviews removed were old reviews from anonymous...

local business or digital marketing agency managing local search strategies. Staying on top of all the updates needed to keep a Google My...

According to the Financial Times (paywall), Yelp has formally complained to the European Commission (EC) that Google “abused its...

Google has confirmed that these campaigns are currently running for select advertisers only and promote verified business locations...

Google My Business (GMB) recently brought back the business description field, which has caused those of us working in the local search...

As reviews have grown in importance, so have efforts to game the system. The problem is growing on both Google Maps and Amazon, according...

Last year, I wrote an article about eight different types of fake content and how the epidemic would hurt local search. It seems the...

E-commerce and local search might seem to be exclusive functions. Local search is typically associated with store locations and driving...

In a move to help SMBs — as well as drive up its verified business listings — Google has launched #SmallThanks Hub, an online resource...