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It appears that Google Search is testing showing only local listings from Google Business Profiles for many types of “near me” queries. So when you search [dentist near me] or [indian food near me] and so on, you only get local listings and no web search results.<\/p>\n
I can’t personally replicate this, but I had two people notify me of this over the past few days. <\/p>\n
First it was Melanie Funderburk who posted a video capture of this in action X<\/a> and wrote: \u201cI’m seeing NEW proof from Google where \u00a340 is on page 1 of Google Mobile Search for ‘dentist near me’.<\/p>\n AFAIK – I’m seeing NEW proof from Google where \u00a340 is on page 1 of Google Mobile Search for “dentist near me” <\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude32 Wow!@DarrenShaw_<\/a> @ColanNielsen<\/a> @JoyanneHawkins<\/a> @rustybrick<\/a> @Miriam_Ellis_<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HgsQaejpPG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Melanie Funderburk (@MelanieFunder) May 3, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n He then published Gagan Ghotra X<\/a>, “for ‘near me’ queries Google is testing to NOT show any blue links on the first page and only include business profiles”. Posted this video:<\/p>\n Breaking \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 for “near me” queries Google is testing NOT showing any blue links on the first page and only showing business profiles.<\/p>\n Screen recording here \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n High quality recording here (because this platform compresses the video quality a lot) – <\/a> pic.twitter.com\/7BxpzXB8bj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) May 5, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n Again, I don’t see it, but it wouldn’t surprise me that Google might be testing this.<\/p>\n Discussion forum a X<\/a>.<\/p>\n