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Google Maps Signal Leak Shifts Local SEO Focus Beyond Business Profile Fields

Newly recovered data examined by Search Engine Land offers an unusually detailed view of the systems that may sit behind Google Maps and local search. Its central lesson for local businesses is clear: a Google Business Profile matters, but it may be only one visible input into a much broader representation of a place, its identity, its attributes, and the evidence connected to it across Google's…

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A look at iLands, a company that's like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 (Ernie Smith/Tedium)

Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.

  • iLands is a platform for AI agents to offer services to freelancers.
  • Agents bombard freelancers with unsolicited emails for tasks like research.
  • Emails lack unsubscribe option, causing outrage among content creators.

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