🇮🇹 Da quanto leggo e sento stamane, la logica sarebbe la seguente: peccato che il #deficit sia stato del 3,1% e non del 2,9% perchè se fosse stato sotto il 3% avremmo potuto finalmente spendere molto di più e aumentarlo. Mentalità pazzesca, un intero Paese malato di #deficit.

Excited to bring the power of Gemini to @googlemaps navigation for walking and cycling, globally. Use Gemini in Maps as a neighborhood tour guide (you could learn something new!) or to send a text with your ETA while walking or biking -- all hands-free.

Menu Interactions is now the #1 metric in GBP Performance dashboard. For F&B, this says it all: menus drive visibility, engagement, and decisions. Treat menus as structured data - not static content. Google makes this explicit by prompting to review menus Is your menu up to date?

Google showing "Learn something specific" module in hotels listing on mobile.

Quick reminder to Hotels NOT to try and sneak in a Special Offer into a post on their Google Business Profile. Google takes their OTA Ad revenue seriously!

How LLMs and RAG Systems Retrieve, Rank, and Cite Content 🤖 A must read A technical guide by @pedrodias to understanding retrieval-augmented generation architecture and its implications for content visibility in generative search: * How does LLM retrieval differ from traditional search? * Beyond ranking: rationale-based selection * How citations get attached * Much more. Check it out: visively.com/kb/ai/llm-rag-r…

Starting today, Gemini can serve up local results in a rich, visual format. See photos, ratings, and real-world info from @GoogleMaps, right where you need them.

The English-language GBP Help Community appears to have included a beta version of ChatAI. I didn't notice this until today. This could be a user-friendly feature. I hope it makes it to the Japanese version soon.😉

New Bing Places for Business is live searchengineland.com/new-bin…

Save your users time and help them find their ideal places faster with AI-powered summaries in our Places API. These summaries highlight insightful information about restaurants and other places, such as quality, value, and service ➡️ mapsplatform.google.com/gemi…

LLMs do not crawl the web, do not maintain indexes, and do not enforce ranking algorithms at internet scale. They operate as presentation and reasoning layers on top of the classic information retrieval (IR) pipeline. The recent paper Why Language Models Hallucinate (Kalai, Nachum, Vempala, Zhang, 2025) shows why this distinction matters: LLMs inevitably hallucinate due to statistical limits and evaluation incentives. Without grounding in real retrieval systems, they cannot provide reliable search. dejan.ai/blog/llm-is-a-prese…

Just received an email from Bing Places announcing the launch of a "new look" in the coming weeks. Smooth navigation Improved experience Custom recommendations Hoping this will solve some of the many issues Bing Places has.

EU Commission welcomes Code of Conduct for reliable online reviews for tourism accommodation. "the EU tourism ecosystem took an important step to ensure trustworthy & reliable online reviews and ratings of hotels & other types of tourism accommodation" transport.ec.europa.eu/news-…

Grazie @Digital_Day per aver lanciato questa campagna, che vi invito tutti a sostenere. dday.it/redazione/54096/al-v…

Not available in Europe. " 180 new countries in ENG" "AI Mode uses the live web browsing capabilities of Project Mariner, direct partner integrations on Search, and the power of our Knowledge Graph and Google Maps to help users take action on the web. " blog.google/products/search/…

Wow - Microsoft CoPilot referencing GBPs - via @nathangotch on X x.com/nathangotch/status/195…

For publishers, having "best __ product" pages is a goldmine for AI search citations. Most of the top-cited pages across many publisher sites are product review pages. For brands, being mentioned on these pages is key. Data via @Similarweb