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Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work?

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[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're not trying to trick you they're trying to rank up in Google. It's basically SEO in real life. Every business with any online awareness is trying to juice their SEO. This isn't the businesses fault, this is the world Google made for us.

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Of course, an argument can be made that this is the evolution of the number of companies that used a variance of "AAA" to appear first in the phone books of old