We knew this was coming but as of July 11th, your reviews on Google Local Service Ads are now managed by Google Business ...

Starting around June 25, 2025, many are noticing huge declines in impressions and clicks from their local rankings in Google.

Learn what the Google Local Pack is, why it matters for local SEO, and proven tactics to rank your business in the 3-Pack and boost local search visibility.

Is Google’s Local Guides program a rewarding community initiative or a flawed system? Explore its successes, failures and ethical dilemmas.

A website purporting to be a local news outlet operating out of a Long Island village has been taken over by anonymous actors pushing puff pieces about China, and Google promoted its work to users ...

Google is illegally dominating local search results, according to Yelp.

A major update to Google Local Services Ads requires businesses to link their accounts to a Google Business Profile by November 21, or risk having their ads paused.

Google is under investigation in Indonesia for a $600M school Chromebook deal. The probe involves allegations of corruption, ...

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has been ...

Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused ...

The big hands of Google continue undermining local journalism, reaping billions of dollars in windfall profits off the backs of news organizations by lifting our work product without compensation.