Google published a research paper describing how it extracts “services offered” information from local business sites to add it to business profiles in Google Maps and Search. The algorithm describes ...

"Google is a monopolist." Those were the words written by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta earlier this month in his landmark ruling against the search giant in the antitrust case brought to the court ...

Google Search can now make AI-powered calls to local businesses. Businesses are selected based on traditional local search rankings. The feature is rolling out in the U.S. with higher usage limits for ...

The lawsuit alleges illegal monopoly practices related to local search and local search advertising. A new chapter in Google’s antitrust troubles opened yesterday with Yelp filing a lawsuit alleging ...

Most businesses don’t fail to rank in the local pack because they lack reviews, links, or proximity. They fail long before that because Google never considers them eligible in the first place. This is ...

Google added a lot more detail to a Google help document on using broad search for Local Services Ads. Google added a section on the setting, how to disable broad search, how to view leads from broad ...

Google now supports Sitelinks for local search ads in the Google Maps interface. They show in the form of a carousel, under a sponsored ad listing in the Google Maps interface. This was first spotted ...