Google appears to be scraping web sites and Facebook pages to discover the real names of some business owners, and then putting those names right on that business’s Google My Business profile. Whether you want it or not. If that’s something that concerns you, you’re not alone, and you may be one of the many marketers who are checking their OWN profile today.
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