If you’re an advertiser with a brick-and-mortar presence, it’s more important than ever to claim and advertise your business on Google Maps. However, cracking the code on how to serve and control ...

For the past several years, Google Search and Maps has offered a Business Messages capability that lets customers reach out to stores, restaurants, etc. via text chat. This is now shutting down in ...

Google is starting to take fake reviews procured by certain businesses seriously. A new feature will showcase a warning on Google Maps when a business listing has recently had fake reviews removed.

Google Maps is transforming map creation with cutting-edge AI tools. With its new builder agent, Model Context Protocol (MCP) ...

The Google Maps app for Android has seem to add a new tab to manage your business profile(s). The tab shows a store icon with the word "Business" below it. Clicking it, lets you manage your Google ...

Google has launched a new report form in Google Maps to "report business conduct." Specifically, this form is to report businesses that offer incentives in exchange for reviews, or pressuring people ...

Google Maps is a free web mapping platform that helps searchers find directions to their chosen destinations and allows businesses to list their store locations. This app is connected to Google ...

As a Google Maps user, I tend to assume that the listings I find in a search are real and legitimate. But that assumption could get me in trouble. Google recently discovered more than 10,000 phony ...

10,000 fake listings removed from Google Maps. Update, March 21, 2025: This story has been updated with a statement from Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google General Counsel regarding the Google Maps scam ...

Did your Google Business Profile get suspended? Here are some common reasons that may happen and what to do about it. Having a Google Business Profile (GBP) is the best way for a local business to ...