Google My Business Showing Competitors Google Posts

Jul 24, 2018 - 7:29 am 5 by
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As a way to encourage businesses to use Google Posts more, Google is now showing some businesses the Google Posts from their competitors in the Google My Business dashboard. Google is playing on the fear of missing out, FOMO, emotion, in order to get more businesses to utilize Google Posts.

This started a couple weeks ago, I personally do not see it, I suspect because I actively use Google Posts and thus Google doesn't need to fear me into using the feature. Here are tweets with folks noticing this feature:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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