I recently had the “pleasure” of having to update approximately 60 business local listings for a client across the Google and Yahoo local business networks, and what I experienced working with both ...

Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind the fraud. The lawsuit, ...

In response to a string of cases where fake business/organization listings have been added to Google Maps, Google says it has removed those listings and put in place new hurdles to make it more ...

Your Google business listing, called your Business Profile by Google, is a free tool you can use to help more people find your business in local searches, rank better than your rivals, and attract ...

Google Places for Business, or "Google Places" for short, requires that your local business listing be complete and accurate before it can be displayed on Google Maps and in organic search results, or ...

Google Maps is getting more accurate. The internet giant said it has taken a number of steps over the past few years to reduce fake results popping up in Google Maps — and they appear to be working.

When Google went public by way of what's called a Dutch auction in 2004, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin left it to investors and not investment bankers to figure what the Web search company was ...

Google‘s latest ‘Search for Beginners’ video on YouTube is an introduction on how to use Google My Business. This is actually the last video in the Search for Beginners series, though Google says it ...

Most people research products or services online before they contact a company. The search engine results page is a competitive battlefield for companies that do most of their business in their ...

Hurray! Google has added TV episode listings to its search results, the company announced today. What’s not to like? Perhaps that they don’t work as well as they could and are disappointing compared ...

Earlier this year, Google made a significant change to its Shopping search tab in the U.S. to allow the service to primarily feature free product listings selected by Google’s algorithms, instead of ...