- Feb 28, 2024
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Saw this today and thought it was pretty interesting.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overview-local-results-listicles-41854.html
Google's AI Overviews for local searches have been caught pulling information from those generic "best X in city" listicles.
In one example, a lawyer had basically published his own list of law firms and Google was using that page as the source for information about the businesses showing in the results.
Obviously Google will probably clean up examples this bad eventually. But it raises a more interesting question.
If Google is using third party listicles to understand and describe local businesses, are these pages becoming useful for more than just the backlink?
Anyone testing this yet?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overview-local-results-listicles-41854.html
Google's AI Overviews for local searches have been caught pulling information from those generic "best X in city" listicles.
In one example, a lawyer had basically published his own list of law firms and Google was using that page as the source for information about the businesses showing in the results.
Obviously Google will probably clean up examples this bad eventually. But it raises a more interesting question.
If Google is using third party listicles to understand and describe local businesses, are these pages becoming useful for more than just the backlink?
Anyone testing this yet?