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CASE ID: [3-5931000040990]

Hello,

I am writing to you because I conducted an in-depth investigation into a business that I believe has been buying fake 5-star reviews in bulk since 2023.
At the end of my investigation, I reported this to Google through the Business Redressal Form and attached my evidence.

Today, it has been four months, an...

Anyone seeing odd ranking results lately when using tracking tools? We have a set of locally focused keywords that we track weekly and have been tracking for years. These keywords include the city name within the query and have historically shown consistent results no matter the user's location. Also historically when checking ranking positions for these keywords any automated c...

AI local packs were mentioned in this YouTube:

I have never seen an AI Local Pack. They were brought up as a possibility. I'm just asking: has anyone actually confirmed these or were they real in January and now they were tested and not actually deployed? Are they being deployed in some amount? I see a number of 7% to 8% being floated around. Can't find any examples. N...

In the last month or two, I've had a couple of GBP suspensions reinstated with the profile unverified. I mentioned it to a work colleague who handles a lot of suspensions, and he says he noticed the same thing.

I brought it up in another forum, and several people there were seeing it too.

Seeing it for HVAC, roofers, skylight installers, real estate agents, mov...

Since Dec 2025 but we just realized since we stopped using it a long time ago

What we think it is that our number was wrong on the LSA it was our old number but since we stopped looking at it and never got any emails we never updated the number. So LSA thinks we were trying to cheat the system.

But now we are trying to appeal and its been weeks and still no res...