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Google's Crawlers Aren't Where Google Says They Are

Your hours might be wrong to the person standing outside your door.

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By Zak
2 min read

Your hours are wrong to the person next door.

Google's crawler claims it lives in Mountain View. It has never once shown up to a Mountain View block party.

Here's the actual leak. Google checks your site from wherever its own servers happen to be that day, not from your street. So the version of your page it saved might not match what the customer three blocks away sees when they search for you tonight. Wrong hours. Old address. A map pin sitting one town over from your front door.

You didn't do anything wrong. You built a business for people who can find it, and nobody warned you that the thing doing the finding sometimes gets confused about where "here" even is.

That's AI Confusion, and it's the reason a shop with a great sign can still be invisible to the people walking past it.

You're the one who opened the doors, built the thing, earned the regulars. That part's not up for debate. What you don't need is to become the person who reads server logs for fun. That's Zak's job. He's a chocolate ibex in a gold-and-brown scarf who climbs up, checks where your business actually shows up, and straightens the sign before the next customer walks by confused.

Handle My Visibility is $197 a month. Zak checks it, fixes what's crooked, keeps it straight. If you want to see what he'd find first, book a 15-minute call and we'll look at your listing together.

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