Over time Google have expanded and grown their services to facilitate more functionality and to help companies push their brand more online; however sometimes they just get it wrong one such issue emerged in November last year (11/2018).
Google has added in a field to the Google My Business platform that allows anyone signed up with a google account to enter an opening date for any company registered on the platform, this has allowed spammers to change opening dates for businesses to be a date in the future essentially showing the company as not open or closed for business.
For local businesses this can seriously damage their reputation and completely alienate potential customers to viewing their website.
At AME WebTech we have already checked all our customers my google information which luckily none of them have been hit with this spam (at least not yet) but we would advise everyone to quickly check their google My Business details by googling their company name and checking all the information displayed is correct.
