The Google Map Pack takes up prime real estate in the Google local search results. This is an important placement for businesses, as the #1 spot gets the highest click-through rate of all listings.

Google’s Local Guides program is an open-source project that allows contributors, officially called “Local Guides,” to upload photos, answers, reviews, edits and other content to Google Maps ...

Google reduces support for local news publishers in California. However, the sunny forecast for California’s news fund has hit a snag. Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to trim the state’s ...

Yelp, a regular Google critic, clearly sees an opening after the recent ruling from Judge Mehta. Yelp’s General Counsel Aaron Schur said so himself in a statement provided to Mashable.

Weeks after California announced a $250 million public-private partnership with Google to fund local news outlets and develop AI, many aspects of the deal remain uncertain.

The backstory: The deal, announced last August, committed California and Google to each put tens of millions of dollars into a fund to be distributed to local news outlets over five years. In ...

A Google Business Profile lets businesses control how they show up on Google Search and Maps. It’s free and helps businesses appear in local searches, making it important for getting new customers.

Google logos are displayed when searched for Google in New York, Sept. 11, 2023. The company says it is changing the way its Google Local Services ads work, which could affect millions of small ...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s latest antitrust case against Google has shined a spotlight on the tech giant’s role in America’s news ecosystem. Federal prosecutors argue that Google’s ...