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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 ...

Internet observers often extol the wisdom of the crowd, but appear to be less keen to consider the malice of the crowd. Thus, Google, ever optimistic about leveraging free labor to organize online ...

Google Maps is getting a few UI tweaks for the listing page. The “Popular times” section for a location has moved above the reviews section. The options for suggesting an edit, measuring distance, ...

Google is now showing web search results when you are viewing a local listing in Google Maps. For some reason I thought Google was doing this years and years ago but I cannot find a story I wrote ...

Google has added to Google business profiles listings in the Google Maps interface a section named "updates from customers." This seems to show some recent reviews from Google Local Guides and this ...