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    <description>Notes from running hundreds of Google Business Profiles through an API with real limits, and what LLMs actually say about local businesses.</description>
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      <title>The public Q&amp;A on your profile — where strangers answer before you do</title>
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      <description>Google replaced public Q&amp;A with AI answers built from reviews, profile data and websites. What changed on 3 Nov 2025, and the four inputs you still control.</description>
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      <title>Product update: the Logbook, and a confidence threshold you control</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT quote Google reviews. Without an owner reply, the review is the only fact they have. How to answer at 200 locations.</description>
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      <title>Holiday hours: the bulk edit most teams forget until 23 December</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Google shows &#x27;hours might differ&#x27; on holidays unless special hours are set. What native bulk tools can&#x27;t do, and how an API run fixes 200 locations in a minute.</description>
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      <description>Standby, Drafting, Autopilot: which actions an AI agent may publish on your profiles, the confidence threshold and the stop button — and what the guidance says.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Split Google Business Profile search terms into branded and non-branded across 200 locations — and why the non-branded share matters in the era of AI answers.</description>
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