New: Google Business Profile Report Negative Review Extortion Scams

Google announced that Gemini can now respond to your local questions with local results in a “rich, visual format.” Google will visually lay out the local results to include photos, ratings, and real-world info from Google Maps data.

Here is a weird one – doing a site command and Google presenting an AI Overview summary of the results. In this case, the AI Overview was dead wrong – which is not all that uncommon – but why show an AI Overview here?

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…