About Google Business Profile
How 200M+ businesses show up on Search and Maps.
Google Business Profile is Google's free product for managing how a business appears on Google Search and Google Maps. It was rebranded from Google My Business in 2021 and runs the listing card every local searcher sees: name, address, phone, opening hours, services, products, photos, posts, customer reviews and the Q&A panel. The Business Profile API and the Performance API expose all of that, plus daily metrics for impressions split by Search and Maps and by device, call clicks, direction requests, website clicks, message conversations and Reserve with Google bookings.
Pulling Google Business Profile into a warehouse turns the listing into structured data the rest of the business can use. Review volume per location sits next to that location's revenue, response-time on negative reviews becomes a measurable SLA, and the search queries Google logs for each branch can be compared with the products that branch sells. For multi-location operators the consolidated picture across hundreds of profiles is the part the native Google interface does not give you.